- Transliteration: Katepheia

- Phonetic: kat-ay'-fi-ah

- Definition:

1. a downcast look expressive of sorrow

2. shame, dejection, gloom

- Origin: from a compound of G2596" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2596 and perhaps a derivative of the base of G5316" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5316 (meaning downcast in look)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: From a compound of G2596" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2596 and perhaps a derivative of the base of G5316" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5316 (meaning downcast in look); demureness that is (by implication) sadness: - heaviness.