# G2647 καταλύω

καταλύω (katalýō), Strong’s G2647: to loosen down (disintegrate), i.e. (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specially (compare G2646 (κατάλυμα)) to halt for the night KJV…

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*katalýō* — to loosen down (disintegrate), i.e. (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specially (compare G2646 (κατάλυμα)) to halt for the night

KJV: destroy, dissolve, be guest, lodge, come to nought, overthrow, throw down

Built from [κατά katá](https://besorah.bible/word/G2596) (about) + [λύω lýō](https://besorah.bible/word/G3089) (to "loosen")

Occurs 70 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 5:17](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/5?v=17) — “Don’t think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
- [Matthew 24:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/24?v=2) — But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here…
- [Matthew 26:61](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/26?v=61) — and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”
- [Matthew 27:40](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/27?v=40) — and saying, “You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down…
- [Mark 13:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/13?v=2) — Yeshua said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not…
- [Mark 14:58](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/14?v=58) — “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made…
- [Mark 15:29](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/15?v=29) — Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple and build it in…
- [Luke 9:12](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/9?v=12) — The day began to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the…
- [Luke 19:7](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/19?v=7) — When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
- [Luke 21:6](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/21?v=6) — “As for these things which you see, the days will come in which there will not be left here one stone on another that…