Greek word · G2611
καταδέω
katadeō
to bandage
To bind down or up. In medical settings it means to bandage or dress a wound. It can also mean to tie or fasten in a general sense.
Appears once in the Greek New Testament. ·
What it means
From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
- Range of meaning
To bind down or up. In medical settings it means to bandage or dress a wound. It can also mean to tie or fasten in a general sense.
- Against the English
'Bound up' (KJV, WEB, ESV) and 'bandaged' (BSB, NIV, NASB) are both right. 'Bound up' keeps the link to the Old Testament passages listed below.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Sirach 27:21 (Greek): 'a wound can be bound up' (traûma estin katadēsai). Ezekiel 34:4 (Greek): God accuses Israel's shepherds, 'the broken you did not bind up' (ou katedēsate), and in 34:16 he promises, 'the broken I will bind up' (katadēsō). The same image of God binding wounds appears in Ps 147:3, Isa 61:1 and Hos 6:1 (with other Greek verbs). Isa 1:6 describes a wounded people whose sores are 'not bound up nor softened with oil' (Greek: neither oil nor bandages).
Similar words
Where it appears
Luke · 1
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Luke 10:34 κατέδησεν he bound up
He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Here: 'He bound up.' This was the ordinary word for dressing a wound. In the Greek Old Testament it is also what God promises to do for his injured flock when the shepherds fail to (Ezek 34:4, 16).
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