καταργέω, κατάργω; future καταργήσω; 1 aorist κατήργησα; perfect κατήργηκα; passive, present καταργοῦμαι; perfect κατήργημαι; 1 aorist κατηργήθην; 1 future καταργηθήσομαι; causative of the verb ἀργέω, equivalent to ἀργόν (i. e. ἀεργον (on the accent cf. Chandler § 444)) ποιῶ; frequent with Paul, who uses it 25 times (elsewhere in N. T. only twice (Luke, Heb.), in the Sept. 4 times (2 Esdr., see below)); 1. to render idle, unemployed, inactive, inoperative: τήν γῆν, to deprive of its strength, make barren (A. V. cumber), Luk 13:7; to cause a person or a thing to have no further efficiency; to deprive of force, influence, power (A. V. bring to nought, make of none effect): τί, Rom 3:3; 1Co 1:28; τινα, 1Co 2:6 (but in passive); diabolic powers, 1Co 15:24 (Justin Martyr, Apology 2, 6); Antichrist, 2Th 2:8; τόν θάνατον, 2Ti 1:10 (Epistle of Barnabas 5, 6 [ET]); τόν διάβολον, Heb 2:14; passive 1Co 15:26; to make void, τήν ἐπαγγελίαν, Gal 3:17; passive Romans 4:14. 2. to cause to cease, put an end to, do away with, annul, abolish: τί, 1Co 6:13; 1Co 13:11; τόν νόμον, Rom 3:31; Eph 2:15; τόν καιρόν τοῦ ἀνόμου, Epistle of Barnabas 15, 5 [ET]; passive πόλεμος καταργεῖται ἐπουρανίων καί ἐπιγείων, Ignatius ad Eph. 13, 2 [ET]; ἵνα καταργηθῇ τό σῶμα τῆς ἁμαρτίας, that the body of sin might be done away, i. e. not the material of the body, but the body so far forth as it is an instrument of sin; accordingly, that the body may cease to be an instrument of sin, Rom 6:6. Passive to cease, pass away, be done away: of things, Gal 5:11; 1Co 13:8; 1Co 13:10; 2Co 3:7; 2Co 3:11; 2Co 3:13 f; of persons, followed by ἀπό τίνος, to be severed from, separated from, discharged from, loosed from, anyone; to terminate all contact with one (a pregnant construction, cf. Winers Grammar, 621 (577); Buttmann, 322 (277)): ἀπό τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Gal 5:4 (on the aorist cf. Winer’s Grammar, § 40, 5 b.); ἀπό τοῦ νόμου, Rom 7:1-25: (2 (Relz omits τοῦ νόμου)),6. The word is rarely met with in secular authors, as Euripides, Phoen. 753 κατάργειν χερα, to make idle, i. e. to leave the hand unemployed; Polybius quoted in Suidas (s. v. κατηργηκεναι) τούς καιρούς, in the sense of to let slip, leave unused; in the Sept. four times for Chaldean áÇÌèÅÌì, to make to cease, i. e. restrain, check, hinder, 2Es 4:21; 2Es 4:23 2Es 5:5 2Es 6:8.