Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary1. (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.
International Standard Bible EncyclopediaDESCEND; DESCENT
de-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.
Greek2597. 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 ...
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2718. katerchomai -- to come down
2658. katantao -- to come down to, reach
4782. sugkatabaino -- to go down with
Strong's Hebrew3381. 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. ...
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6795. tsanach -- to descend
5181. nacheth -- to go down, descend
5182. necheth -- to descend
7585. sheol -- underworld (place to which people descend at death)
4354. Makiri -- descendant of Machir
4084. Midyani -- a descendant of Midian
Whether it was Fitting for Christ to Descend into Hell?
Spirit of God, in Love Descend,
Spirit of God, in Love Descend,
Now Comes the Second Part of the Prayer, in which we Descend to ...
The Apostles Teach that it was Neither Christ nor the Saviour, but ...
"Then Why," it is Asked, "Did the Deity Descend to Such ...
The Lord's Descent from Heaven.
1 Cor. Ix. 24
1 Thessalonians iv. 15-17
ThesaurusDescend (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 ...
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Fall (522 Occurrences)
Nether (19 Occurrences)
Down (12601 Occurrences)
Alight (3 Occurrences)
Nether-world (41 Occurrences)
Light (2869 Occurrences)
Lower (72 Occurrences)
Sea (4178 Occurrences)
Sheol (64 Occurrences)
Bible ConcordanceDescend (34 Occurrences)
Matthew 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Matthew 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Matthew 11:23 And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted even to Heaven? Even to Hades shalt thou descend. For had the mighty works been done in Sodom which have been done in thee, it would have remained until now.
Matthew 27:40 and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou art Son of God, descend from the cross.
Matthew 27:42 He saved others, himself he cannot save. He is King of Israel: let him descend now from the cross, and we will believe on him.
Mark 15:30 save thyself, and descend from the cross.
Mark 15:32 Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
John 1:32 John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
John 1:33 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me,'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'
Acts 11:5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
Romans 10:7 or,'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)"
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
Exodus 19:24 And Jehovah said to him, Go, descend, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee; but the priests and the people shall not break through to go up to Jehovah, lest he break forth on them.
Exodus 32:7 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Go, descend, for thy people whom thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt hath done corruptly,
Exodus 33:9 It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.
Numbers 16:30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.'
Numbers 34:11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
1 Samuel 26:10 David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
Nehemiah 3:15 The spring gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even to the stairs that go down from the city of David.
Job 17:16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
Psalms 7:16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
Psalms 49:17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.
Song of Songs 4:1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.
Song of Songs 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
Isaiah 5:14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
Isaiah 14:19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.
Isaiah 27:6 He shall cause them that descend from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Isaiah 32:19 But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.
Isaiah 34:5 For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse.
Isaiah 43:14 Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: 'For your sake I have sent to Babylon, And caused bars to descend -- all of them, And the Chaldeans, whose song 'is' in the ships.
Lamentations 1:13 From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.
Ezekiel 26:20 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
Ezekiel 31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
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