Original Word: καταφέρεια
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: katépheia
Pronunciation: kat-ef'-i-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ay'-fi-ah)
KJV: heaviness
NASB: gloom
Word Origin: [from a compound of G2596 (κατά - according) and perhaps a derivative of the base of G5316 (φαίνω - appeared) (meaning downcast in look)]

1. demureness
2. (by implication) sadness

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

Word Origin
from katéphés (with eyes downcast)
Definition
dejection
NASB Translation
gloom (1).

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.)

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