Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
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Descending
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Revelation 21:10
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
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καταβαίνω
katabaínō · kat-ab-ah'-ee-no
7 times translated as this KJV form86 total Strong's occurrences
to descend (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--come (get, go, step) down, fall (down).
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Strong's first: Matthew 3:16Strong's last: Revelation 21:10
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yârad · yaw-rad'
1 times translated as this KJV form386 total Strong's occurrences
to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications)
Strong's KJV usage: × abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, × indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Strong's first: Genesis 28:12Strong's last: Genesis 28:12
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And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
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descend
DESCEND, verb intransitive [Latin To climb.]
1. To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downwards; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable to any kind of motion or of body. We descend on the feet, on wheels, or by falling. A torrent descends from a mountain.
The rains descended, and the floods came. Matthew 7:25.
2. To go down, or to enter.
He shall descend into battle and perish. Sam. 26.
3. To come suddenly; to fall violently.
And on the suitors let thy wrath descend
4. To go in; to enter.
He, with honest meditations fed, into himself descended.
5. To rush; to invade, as an enemy.
The Grecian fleet descending on the town.
6. To proceed from a source or original; to be derived. The beggar may descend from a prince, and the prince, from a beggar.
7. To proceed, as from father to son; to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance. Thus, an inheritance descends to the son or next of kin; a crown descends to the heir.
8. To pass from general to particular considerations; as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.
9. To come down from an elevated or honorable station; in a figurative sense. Flavius is an honorable man; he cannot descend to acts of meanness.
10. In music, to fall in sound; to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat.
DESCEND, verb transitive To walk, move or pass downwards on a declivity; as, to descend a hill; to descend an inclined plain. [But this may be considered as elliptical; on or along being understood.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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