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'Down' in the Bible

Afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negev (South country) and in the lowland.

Then the Amorites forced the sons of Dan [back] into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down into the valley;

and as for you, you shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed Me; what is this that you have done?

and they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods from the gods of the peoples who were around them, and they bowed down to them, and offended and provoked the Lord to anger.

Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the prostitute after other gods and they bowed down to them. They quickly turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do as their fathers.

But when the judge died, they turned back and behaved more corruptly than their fathers, in following and serving other gods, and bowing down to them. They did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.

When he had arrived, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was in front of them.

And he said to them, “Pursue them, for the Lord has handed over your enemies the Moabites to you.” So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan opposite Moab and did not allow anyone to cross.

Deborah said to Barak, “Arise! For this is the day when the Lord has given Sisera into your hand. Has the Lord not gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

“At the sound of those who divide flocks among the watering places,There they shall recount the righteous acts of the Lord,The righteous acts toward His villagers in Israel.Then the people of the Lord went down to the gates.

“Then down marched the survivors to the nobles;The people of the Lord marched down for Me against the mighty.

“From Ephraim those whose root is in Amalek came down,After you, Benjamin, with your relatives;From Machir came down commanders and rulers,And from Zebulun those who handle the scepter of the [office of] scribe.

Now on that same night the Lord said to Gideon, “Take your father’s bull, the second bull seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it;

and build an altar to the Lord your God on top of this mountain stronghold [with stones laid down] in an orderly way. Then take the second bull and offer a burnt sacrifice using the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”

Early the next morning when the men of the city got up, they discovered that the altar of Baal was torn down, and the Asherah which was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar which had been built.

Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, so that he may be executed, because he has torn down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah which was beside it.”

But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you plead for Baal? Will you save him? Whoever pleads for Baal shall be put to death while it is still morning. If Baal is a god, let him defend himself, because someone has torn down his altar.”

Therefore on that day he named Gideon Jerubbaal, meaning, “Let Baal plead,” because he had torn down his altar.

Then the Lord said to Gideon, “There are still too many people; bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. Therefore it shall be that he of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go with you; but everyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”

So he brought the people down to the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, “You shall separate everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps, as well as everyone who kneels down to drink.”

Now the number of those who lapped [the water], putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men, but all the rest of the people kneeled down to drink water.

Now on that same night the Lord said to Gideon, “Arise, go down against their camp, for I have given it into your hand.

But if you are afraid to go down [by yourself], go with Purah your servant down to the camp,

and you will hear what they say; and afterward you will have the courage to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the army that was in the camp.

When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling a dream to his friend. And he said, “Listen carefully, I had a dream: there was a loaf of barley bread tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat.”

Then Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of [the tribe of] Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and take [control of] the waters before them [thereby cutting off the Midianites], as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan [River].” So all the men of Ephraim were assembled together and they took control of the waters, as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.

So Gideon said also to the men of Penuel, “When I come again in peace, I will tear down this tower.”

He captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And the youth wrote down for him [the names of] the leaders of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.

He tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountaintops.” But Zebul said to him, “You are only seeing the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.”

Gaal spoke again and said, “Look! People are coming down from the highest part of the land, and one company is coming by way of the sorcerers’ oak tree.”

So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees, picked it up, and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the people with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do just as I have done.”

So everyone of the people also cut down his branch and followed Abimelech, and they put the branches on top of the inner chamber and set it on fire over those inside, so that all the people in the Tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.

But a certain woman threw an upper millstone [down] on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.

Samson went down to Timnah and at Timnah he saw a woman, one of the daughters of the Philistines.

Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother [to arrange the marriage], and they came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and suddenly, a young lion came roaring toward him.

So he went down and talked with the woman; and she looked pleasing to Samson.

His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for that was the customary thing for young men to do.

Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of them and took their gear, and gave changes of clothes to those who had explained the riddle. And his anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.

Then he struck them without mercy, a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Have you not known that the Philistines are rulers over us? What is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, so that we may hand you over to the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not kill me.”

Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with [two] bronze chains; and he was forced to be a grinder [of grain into flour at the mill] in the prison.

Then his brothers and his father’s entire [tribal] household came down, took him, and brought him up; and they buried him in the tomb of Manoah his father, [which was] between Zorah and Eshtaol. So Samson had judged Israel for twenty years.

So both men sat down and ate and drank together; and the girl’s father said to the man, “Please be willing to spend the night and enjoy yourself.”

So they passed by and went on their way, and the sun set on them near Gibeah, which belongs to [the tribe of] Benjamin,

and they turned aside there to go in and spend the night in Gibeah. And the Levite went in and sat down in the open square of the city, because no man invited them into his house to spend the night.

At daybreak the woman came and collapsed at the door of the man’s house where her master was, until it was [fully] light.

When her master got up in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, he saw his concubine lying at the door of the house, and her hands were on the threshold.

They surrounded [the men of] Benjamin, pursued them relentlessly, and overtook them opposite Gibeah toward the east.

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Definition
Usage
καταβαίνω 
Katabaino 
Usage: 63

נתץ 
Nathats 
Usage: 42

ἀνακλίνω 
Anaklino 
Usage: 5

καθαιρέω 
Kathaireo 
Usage: 8

חתת 
Chathath 
Usage: 48

נפל 
Naphal 
Usage: 434

שׁחח 
Shachach 
Usage: 21

ἀναπίπτω 
Anapipto 
sit down , sit down to meat , be set down , lean
Usage: 8

הלם 
Halam 
Usage: 9

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

נגר 
Nagar 
Usage: 10

נוּח 
Nuwach 
Usage: 144

שׁחה 
Shachah 
Usage: 171

ἀνακεῖμαι 
Anakeimai 
sit at meat , guests , sit , sit down , be set down , lie , lean , at the table
Usage: 10

ἐκκόπτω 
Ekkopto 
Usage: 6

κάθημαι 
Kathemai 
sit , sit down , sit by , be set down , dwell
Usage: 78

καθίζω 
Kathizo 
sit , sit down , set , be set , be set down , continue , tarry
Usage: 30

καταβιβάζω 
Katabibazo 
Usage: 0

κατακλίνω 
Kataklino 
Usage: 1

κατέρχομαι 
Katerchomai 
Usage: 13

προσπίπτω 
Prospipto 
Usage: 7

τίθημι 
Tithemi 
Usage: 71

בּרא 
Bara' 
Usage: 54

בּרך 
Barak 
Usage: 330

גּדע 
Gada` 
... down , cut off , asunder , cut in sunder
Usage: 22

גּהר 
Gahar 
Usage: 3

גּזז 
Gazaz 
Usage: 15

גּזר 
Gazar 
Usage: 13

גּלל 
Galal 
Usage: 18

דּוּשׁ 
Duwsh (Aramaic) 
tread it down
Usage: 1

דּחח דּחה 
Dachah 
Usage: 10

דּמה 
Damah 
Usage: 15

דּמם 
Damam 
Usage: 30

דּרך 
Darak 
Usage: 63

הדך 
Hadak 
Usage: 1

הפך 
Hophek 
Usage: 1

זלל 
Zalal 
Usage: 9

חבט 
Chabat 
Usage: 5

חטב 
Chatab 
Usage: 9

חתת 
Chathath 
Usage: 1

ינח 
Yanach 
Usage: 0

יצק 
Yatsaq 
Usage: 53

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

ישׁח 
Yeshach 
Usage: 1

כּחד 
Kachad 
Usage: 32

כּנע 
Kana` 
Usage: 36

כּסח 
Kacach 
cut up , cut down
Usage: 2

כּפף 
Kaphaph 
Usage: 5

כּרע 
Kara` 
Usage: 36

כּרת 
Karath 
Usage: 287

כּשׁל 
Kashal 
Usage: 62

כּתת 
Kathath 
Usage: 17

לוּע 
Luwa` 
Usage: 2

מבוא 
Mabow' 
Usage: 23

מבוּסה 
M@buwcah 
Usage: 3

מוט 
Mowt 
Usage: 38

מוּל 
Muwl 
Usage: 37

מורד 
Mowrad 
Usage: 5

מטּה 
Mattah 
Usage: 19

מעל 
me`al (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

מרבּץ 
Marbets 
Usage: 2

מרמס 
Mirmac 
Usage: 7

נבט 
Nabat 
Usage: 69

נבל 
Nabel 
Usage: 25

נגע 
Naga` 
Usage: 150

נגף 
Nagaph 
Usage: 49

נדח 
Nadach 
Usage: 53

נדף 
Nadaph 
drive away , drive , thrust him down , shaken , driven to and fro , tossed to and fro
Usage: 9

נזל 
Nazal 
Usage: 16

נחת 
Nachath 
Usage: 9

נחת 
N@chath (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

נחת 
Nachath 
Usage: 8

נטף 
Nataph 
Usage: 18

נמל 
Namal 
Usage: 4

נסח 
N@cach (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

נפל 
N@phal (Aramaic) 
Usage: 11

נקף 
Naqaph 
Usage: 19

סגד 
Cagad 
Usage: 4

סלה 
Calah 
Usage: 4

עוה 
`avah 
Usage: 17

עות 
`avath 
Usage: 11

עסס 
`acac 
Usage: 1

עקר 
`aqar 
hough , pluck up , rooted up , digged down
Usage: 7

ערף 
`araph 
Usage: 2

ערף 
`araph 
Usage: 5

פּרץ 
Parats 
Usage: 49

צען 
Tsa`an 
Usage: 1

קוּר 
Quwr 
Usage: 5

קטף 
Qataph 
crop off , pluck , cut up , cut down
Usage: 5

קמט 
Qamat 
cut down , filled me with wrinkles
Usage: 2

קמל 
Qamal 
Usage: 2

קצב 
Qatsab 
Usage: 2

רבע 
Raba` 
Usage: 3

רבץ 
Rabats 
Usage: 30