καταφέρω; 1 aorist
κατήνεγκα; passive, present
καταφέρομαι; 1 aorist
κατηνεχθην; (from
Homer down);
to bear down, bring down, cast down:
ψῆφον, properly, to cast a pebble or calculus namely, into the urn, i. e. to give one's vote,
to approve, Acts 26:10;
αἰτιώματα κατά τίνος (see
κατά, I. 2 b. (but the critical editions reject
κατά κτλ.)),
Acts 25:7 L T Tr WH. Passive,
to be borne down, to sink (from the window to the pavement),
ἀπό τοῦ ὕπνου, from sleep (from the effect of his deep sleep (cf.
Buttmann, 322 (277);
Winer's Grammar, 371 (348))),
Acts 20:9b; metaphorically,
to be weighed down by, overcome, carried away, καταφερόμενος ὕπνῳ βάθει, sunk in a deep sleep,
Acts 20:9a; of a different sort (contra
Winer's Grammar, 431 (401)) is the expression in secular authors,
καταφέρομαι εἰς ὕπνον, to sink into sleep, drop asleep,
Josephus, Antiquities 2, 5, 5;
Herodian, 2, 1, 3 (2); 9, 6 (5);
τοισιν ὑπνοισιν, Hipp., p. 1137 c. ((Kühn iii., p. 539)), and in the same sense simply
καταφέρομαι; cf. (Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 2 d.);
Stephanus' Thesaurus 4 col. 1286 (where the passage from Acts is fully discussed).
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