Lexical Summary
kateuthunó: To direct, to guide, to make straight
Original Word: κατευθύνω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: kateuthunó
Pronunciation: kat-yoo-thoo'-no
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-yoo-thoo'-no)
KJV: guide, direct
NASB: direct, guide
Word Origin: [from G2596 (κατά - according) and G2116 (εὐθύνω - make straight)]
1. to straighten fully
2. (figuratively) direct
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
guide, direct.
From kata and euthuno; to straighten fully, i.e. (figuratively) direct -- guide, direct.
see GREEK kata
see GREEK euthuno
HELPS Word-studies
2720 kateuthýnō (from 2596 /katá, "down, exactly according to," intensifying 2116 /euthýnō, "make straight") – properly, go straight down by the most direct, efficient route; to go in a direct (straight) course – avoiding all unnecessary delays, without any undue loss of time or achievement.
[The prefix (kata) lends the idea "exactly direct or guide" – literally "down to without unnecessary deviation."]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
kata and
euthunóDefinitionto make straight
NASB Translationdirect (2), guide (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2720: κατευθύνωκατευθύνω: 1 aorist infinitive
κατευθύναι; 3 person singular optative
κατευθύναι; (see
κατά, III. 2); the
Sept. mostly for
יִשֵׁר and
כּונֵן,
הֵכִין;
to make straight, guide, direct:
τούς πόδας ...
εἰς ὁδόν εἰρήνης,
Luke 1:79;
τήν ὁδόν πρός τινα, of the removal of the hindrances to coming to one,
1 Thessalonians 3:11;
τάς καρδίας (
1 Chronicles 29:18;
2 Chronicles 19:3)
εἰς τήν ἀγάπην τοῦ Θεοῦ,
2 Thessalonians 3:5. (
Plato,
Aristotle,
Plutarch, others.)
