A compound verb meaning to shoot someone down with arrows—to kill or strike with projectile weapons. The prefix κατα- adds downward force or completion to the act of archery. Classical texts use it for battlefield deaths and hunting. The passive voice means 'to be shot down' or struck by arrows. In biblical and Septuagintal contexts it may appear in descriptions of divine judgment (God's arrows) or military defeat. The word paints a violent image—not abstract death but the specific brutality of arrows finding their mark.