Descend
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to go down" (kata, "down," baino, "to go"), used for various kinds of motion on the ground (e.g., going, walking, stepping), is usually translated "to descend." The RV uses the verb "to come down," for AV, "descend," in Mark 15:32; Acts 24:1; Revelation 21:10 . See Come , No. 19.
"to come or go down," is translated "descendeth," in James 3:15 , AV; RV, "cometh down." See Come , No. 7.
King James Dictionary [2]
Descend, L To climb.
1. To move or pass from a higher to a lower place to move, come or go downwards to fall to sink to run or flow down applicable to any kind of motion or of body. We descend on the feet, on wheels, or by falling. A torrent descends from a mountain.
The rains descended, and the floods came. Matthew 7 .
2. To go down, or to enter.
He shall descend into battle and perish. Sam. 26.
3. To come suddenly to fall violently.
And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.
4. To go in to enter.
He, with honest meditations fed, into himself descended.
5. To rush to invade, as an enemy.
The Grecian fleet descending on the town.
6. To proceed from a source or original to be derived. The beggar may descend from a prince, and the prince, from a beggar. 7. To proceed, as from father to son to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance. Thus, an inheritance descends to the son or next of kin a crown descends to the heir. 8. To pass from general to particular considerations as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars. 9. To come down from an elevated or honorable station in a figurative sense. Flavius is an honorable man he cannot descend to acts of meanness. 10. In music, to fall in sound to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat.
Descend To walk, move or pass downwards on a declivity as, to descend a hill to descend an inclined plain. But this may be considered as elliptical on or along being understood.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
(2): ( v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.
(3): ( v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
(4): ( v. i.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
(5): ( v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
(6): ( v. i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; - the opposite of ascend.
(7): ( v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
(8): ( v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; - with on or upon.
(9): ( v. i.) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
