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|txtha=καταβολῆς, ἡ ([[καταβάλλω]], [[which]] [[see]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a throwing or laying down: τοῦ σπέρματος ([[namely]], εἰς [[τήν]] μήτραν), the injection or depositing of the [[virile]] semen in the [[womb]], Lucian, amor. 19; Galen, [[aphorism]]. iv. § 1; of the [[seed]] of animals and plants, [[Philo]] de opif. mund. §§ 22,45; σπέρματα τά εἰς γῆν ἤ μήτραν καταβαλλομενα, Antoninus 4,36; [[accordingly]] [[many]] [[interpret]] the words Σάρρα δύναμιν εἰς καταβολήν σπέρματος ἔλαβε in καταβάλλειν τό [[σπέρμα]], [[not]] to the [[female]], [[this]] [[interpretation]] cannot [[stand]] (according to the [[reading]] of WH marginal [[reading]] αὐτῇ Σάρρα, Abr. [[remains]] the subjunctive of ἔλαβεν; [[but]] [[see]] 2below)); cf. Bleek (and, on the [[other]] [[side]], Kurtz) at the [[passage]]<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a founding (laying down a [[foundation]]): εἰς καταβολήν σπέρματος, to [[found]] a [[posterity]], πυραννιδος, [[Polybius]] 13,6, 2; [[ἅμα]] τῇ πρώτη [[καταβολή]] τῶν ἀνθρώπων, [[Plato]], aquae et ignis comp. C. 2). [[ἀπό]] καταβολῆς κόσμου, from the [[foundation]] of the [[world]]: L T Tr WH [[omit]] κόσμου); [[πρό]] καταβολῆς κόσμου, 1 Peter 1:20.