καταντάω

Acts 16:1 Κατήντησεν He came

Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.

Here: 'He arrived at'. The verb marks reaching the end point of a journey, and Luke uses it often for the stages of Paul's travels. The subject is Paul, who has just set out with Silas (15:40–41). The BSB puts the name in.

Acts 18:19 κατήντησαν They came

When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He himself went into the synagogue there and reasoned with the Jews.

Here: "They arrived". This is a word for reaching a destination and is Luke's usual verb for completing a stage of a journey, here the sea crossing from Cenchreae to Ephesus. The plural takes in Paul, Priscilla and Aquila together.

Acts 18:24 κατήντησεν came

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the Scriptures.

Here: 'Arrived' or 'reached'. This is a travel word Luke uses again and again in Acts. The form (aorist) states the arrival simply, as a single event.

Acts 20:15 κατηντήσαμεν we arrived

Sailing on from there, we arrived the next day opposite Chios. The day after that we arrived at Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus.

Here: 'We reached / got as far as.' It is one of Luke's favourite travel verbs. The 'we' puts the narrator on board.

Acts 21:7 κατηντήσαμεν came down

When we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.

Acts 25:13 κατήντησαν came down

After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

Acts 26:7 καταντῆσαι, to attain,

the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.

Here: An arrival word that Luke uses for ships and travellers reaching port. Israel's worship is pictured as a long journey whose end is the fulfilled promise.

Acts 27:12 καταντήσαντες having arrived

Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to sail on, hoping that somehow they could reach Phoenix to winter there. Phoenix was a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.

Acts 28:13 κατηντήσαμεν we arrived

From there we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day, a south wind came up, and on the second day we arrived at Puteoli.

1 Corinthians 10:11 κατήντηκεν.¶ has come.

Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

Here: Perfect tense: 'has arrived and is now here'. It is a travel word, used of reaching a destination, and in the papyri of an inheritance passing down to an heir. The end-point of the ages is no longer only ahead; it has come and stays upon this generation.

1 Corinthians 14:36 κατήντησεν;¶ has it come?

Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?

Ephesians 4:13 καταντήσωμεν we may attain

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.

Here: A travel word: to arrive at a destination. The church is pictured as a company on a journey that has not yet reached the place it is heading for. The form treats the arrival as a single event.

Philippians 3:11 καταντήσω I shall attain

and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Here: A travel word for reaching a destination at the end of a journey. The form can be read as 'I may arrive' or 'I will arrive', since the two look the same in Greek. It pictures the resurrection as the place where Paul's road with Christ ends.