Original Word: κατήφεια, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: katépheia
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ay'-fi-ah)
Short Definition: a downcast countenance, gloom, dejection
Definition: a downcast countenance as a sign of sorrow, gloominess, gloom, dejection.STRONGS NT 2726: κατήφεια

κατήφεια, κατηφειας, ἡ (from κατηφής, of a downcast look; and this from κατά, and τά φαη the eyes; Etym. Magn. (496, 53) κατήφεια. ἀπό τοῦ κάτω τά φαη βάλλειν τούς ὀνειδιζομενους ἤ λυπουμενους; because, as Plutarch,de dysopia (others,de vitioso pudore (528 e.))

c. 1 says, it is λύπη κάτω βλέπειν ποιοῦσα), properly, a downcast look expressive of sorrow; hence, shame, dejection, gloom (A. V. heaviness"): James 4:9. (Homer, Iliad 3, 51; 16, 498 etc.; Thucydides 7, 75; Josephus, Antiquities 13, 16, 1; Plutarch, Cor. 20; (Pelop. 33, 3, and often; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Char., etc.); often in Philo.)

gloominess, dejection

From a compound of kata and perhaps a derivative of the base of phaino (meaning downcast in look); demureness, i.e. (by implication) sadness -- heaviness.

see GREEK kata

see GREEK phaino

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