- Transliteration: Kataphero

- Phonetic: kat-af-er'-o

- Definition:

1. to bear down, bring down, cast down

a. to cast a pebble or calculus into the urn

1. to give one's vote, to approve

b. to be born down, to sink, (from the window to the pavement)

c. metaph.

1. to be weighted down by, overcome, carried away

2. to sink into sleep, drop asleep

- Origin: from G2596" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2596 and G5342" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5342 (including its alternate)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G2596" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2596 and G5342" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5342 (including its alternate); to bear down that is (figuratively) overcome (with drowsiness); specifically to cast a vote: - fall give sink down.