Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v. i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.
2. (v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.
3. (v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
4. (v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
5. (v. i.) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
6. (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
7. (v. i.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
8. (v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
9. (v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
DESCEND; DESCENTde-send', de-sent' (yaradh; katabaino, "go down"); (katabasis): Of Yahweh (Exodus 34:5); of the Spirit (Matthew 3:16); of angels (Genesis 28:12 Matthew 28:2 John 1:51); of Christ (1 Thessalonians 4:16 Ephesians 4:9). "He also descended into the lower parts of the earth" is variously interpreted, the two chief interpretations being the one of the incarnation, and the other of the "descent into hell" (1 Peter 3:19). The former regards the clause "of the earth," an appositive genitive, as when we speak of "the city of Rome," namely, "the lower parts, i.e. the earth." The other regards the genitive as possessive, or, with Meyer, as governed by the comparative, i.e. "parts lower than the earth." For the former view, see full discussion in Eadie; for the latter, Ellicott and especially Meyer, in commentaries on Eph.
H. E. Jacobs
Greek
2597. katabaino -- to go down ... Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ab-ah'-ee-no) Short Definition: I go down, come down Definition:
I go down, come down, either from the sky or from higher land,
descend ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2597.htm - 9k2718. katerchomai -- to come down
... 3), went down (4). come down, descend, go down. From kata and erchomai
(including its alternate); to come (or go) down (literally ...
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2658. katantao -- to come down to, reach
... to the sea-coast), or from the high seas to the coast; hence met: I arrive at, reach
(my destination), (b) of property: I come down (descend) by inheritance to ...
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4782. sugkatabaino -- to go down with
... go down with. From sun and katabaino; to descend in company with -- go down with.
see GREEK sun. see GREEK katabaino. (sunkatabantes) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
3381. yarad -- to come or go down, descend... 3380, 3381. yarad. 3382 . to come or go down,
descend. Transliteration: yarad
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-rad') Short Definition: down. Word Origin a prim.
... /hebrew/3381.htm - 7k 6795. tsanach -- to descend
... 6794b, 6795. tsanach. 6796 . to descend. Transliteration: tsanach Phonetic
Spelling: (tsaw-nakh') Short Definition: alighted. Word Origin a prim. ...
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5181. nacheth -- to go down, descend
... 5180, 5181. nacheth. 5182 . to go down, descend. Transliteration: nacheth Phonetic
Spelling: (naw-khath') Short Definition: bend. Word Origin a prim. ...
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5182. necheth -- to descend
... 5181, 5182. necheth. 5183 . to descend. Transliteration: necheth Phonetic
Spelling: (nekh-ath') Short Definition: deposed. Word ...
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7585. sheol -- underworld (place to which people descend at death)
... underworld (place to which people descend at death). Transliteration: sheol or
sheol Phonetic Spelling: (sheh-ole') Short Definition: Sheol. ...
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4354. Makiri -- descendant of Machir
... of Machir NASB Word Usage Machirites (1). of Machir. Patronymical from Makiyr; a
Makirite or descend. Of Makir -- of Machir. see HEBREW Makiyr. 4353, 4354. ...
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4084. Midyani -- a descendant of Midian
... Midianite. Patronymical or patrial from Midyan; a Midjanite or descend. (native)
of Midjan -- Midianite. Compare Mdaniy. see HEBREW Midyan. see HEBREW Mdaniy. ...
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Library
Whether it was Fitting for Christ to Descend into Hell?
... OF CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether it was fitting for
Christ to descend into hell? Objection 1: It would seem ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether it was fitting for 7.htm
Spirit of God, in Love Descend,
... PENTECOST Spirit of God, in love descend,. tr., John Brownlie 8,8,8,8. I. Spirit
of God, in love descend,. And make our hearts Thy place of rest,. ...
/.../brownlie/hymns from the morningland/spirit of god in love.htm
Spirit of God, in Love Descend,
... HYMNS OF THE EARLY CHURCH Spirit of God, in love descend,. 8,8,8,8. Spirit of
God, in love descend,. And make our hearts Thy place of rest; ...
/.../brownlie/hymns of the early church/spirit of god in love.htm
Now Comes the Second Part of the Prayer, in which we Descend to ...
... Of Prayer. John Calvin Chapter 44 Now comes the second part of the prayer,
in which we descend to our own? Now comes the second ...
/.../calvin/of prayer--a perpetual exercise of faith/chapter 44 now comes the.htm
The Apostles Teach that it was Neither Christ nor the Saviour, but ...
... Against Heresies: Book III Chapter XVII."The apostles teach that it was neither
Christ nor the Saviour, but the Holy Spirit, who did descend upon Jesus. ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xvii the apostles teach that.htm
"Then Why," it is Asked, "Did the Deity Descend to Such ...
... Chapter XIV. "Then why," it is asked, "did the Deity descend to such humiliation? ...
"Then why," it is asked, "did the Deity descend to such humiliation? ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter xiv then why it.htm
The Lord's Descent from Heaven.
... "The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout." The ... "The Lord Himself
shall descend." Unspeakably precious is this word to the hearts of His own. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the redeemers return/1 the lords descent from.htm
1 Cor. Ix. 24
... For as there, though many descend into the course not many are crowned, but this
befalls one only; and it is not enough to descend into the contest, nor to ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xxiii 1 cor ix.htm
1 Thessalonians iv. 15-17
... For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of
the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise ...
/.../homily viii 1 thessalonians iv.htm
Psalm CXX.
... But degrees, as they are used in this Psalm, are of ascending...There are therefore
both those who ascend and those who descend on that ladder. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm cxx.htm
Thesaurus
Descend (34 Occurrences)... a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by
transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may
descend from a
.../d/descend.htm - 19kFall (522 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the
force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the ...
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Nether (19 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 26:20 then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to
the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of ...
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Down (12601 Occurrences)
... 18. (vt) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in
wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down. 19. (vi) To go down; to descend. ...
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Alight (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To spring down, get down, or descend, as
from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount. 2. (vi ...
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Nether-world (41 Occurrences)
... its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude,
and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it . ...
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Light (2869 Occurrences)
... 43. (vi) To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; -- with
from, off, on, upon, at, in. 44. (vi) To feel light; to be made happy. 45. ...
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Lower (72 Occurrences)
... 2. (v.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as,
to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull ...
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Sea (4178 Occurrences)
... above the valley, bring an abnormal amount of debris into the river, as do a large
number of shorter tributaries which descend an equal amount from the ...
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Sheol (64 Occurrences)
... RSV). Job 17:16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend
together into the dust?" (WEB ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV). Job ...
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