Quick Definition
anything happily and successfully accomplished
Strong's Definition
something made fully upright, i.e. (figuratively) rectification (specially, good public administration)
Derivation: from a compound of G2596 (κατά) and a derivative of G3717 (ὀρθός) (compare G1357 (διόρθωσις));
KJV Usage: very worthy deed
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κατόρθωμα, κατορθωματος, τό (κατορθόω to make upright, erect), a right action, a successful achievement: plural of wholesome public measures or institutions, Act_24:2 (3) (R G; see διόρθωμα); (3Ma_3:23; Polybius, Diodorus, Strabo, Josephus, Plutarch, Lucian). Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 251; (Winer's 25).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
not given
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κατόρθωμα , -τος , τό ,
Rec, for διόρθωμα ( q.v. ), Act_24:3 .†
* διόρθωμα , -τος , τό
( < διορθόω , to make straight, set right),
a correction, reform: Act_24:3 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κατόρθωμα [page 338]
With the TR of Act_24:2 cf. CP Herm I. 125 ii. 4 (A.D. 260 8) where a certain Aurelius Ploution is praised τὰ μέγιστα κ [α ]τορθώματα κ [α ]τωρθώσας τῇ πατρί [δ ]ι , and cf. Syll 324 .28 (i/B.C.) εὐερ [γέτην ὄντα καὶ πλεῖστα τ ]ῆι πόλει κατορθωσάμενον ἀγαθά . For the verb see further P Lond 130 .31 (i/ii A.D.) (= I. p. 134) κατορθοῦται , Aristeas 251 κατορθοῦται γὰρ βίος , ὅταν ὁ κυβερνῶν εἰδῇ , πρὸς τίνα σκοπὸν δεῖ τὴν διέξοδον ποιεῖσθαι , and Menander Ἐπιτρέπ . 339 π [ό ]ει κατορθοῦν τοὺς λόγους οὓς ἂν λέγω . On the medical usage, see Hobart, p. 261 f.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
κατόρθωμα, -τος, τό
Rec, for διόρθωμα (which see), Act.24:3.†
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