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Lexicon :: Strong's G2690 - katastrephō

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καταστρέφω
Transliteration
katastrephō (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-as-tref'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:715,1093

Strong’s Definitions

καταστρέφω katastréphō, kat-as-tref'-o; from G2596 and G4762; to turn upside down, i.e. upset:—overthrow.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G2690 in the following manner: overthrow (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G2690 in the following manner: overthrow (2x).

  1. to turn over, turn under

    1. the soil with a plough

  2. to overturn, overthrow, throw down

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καταστρέφω katastréphō, kat-as-tref'-o; from G2596 and G4762; to turn upside down, i.e. upset:—overthrow.
STRONGS G2690:
καταστρέφω: 1 aorist κατέστρεψα; perfect passive participle κατεστραμμενος (Acts 15:16 T (WH, but Tr κατεστρεμμενος; cf. WH's Appendix, p. 170f));
1. to turn over, turn under: the soil with a plow, Xenophon, oec. 17, 10.
2. to overturn, overthrow, throw down: τί, Matthew 21:12; Mark 11:15; (τά κατεστραμμενος, ruins), Acts 15:16 T Tr WH ((cf. κατασκάπτω)); so Haggai 2:22; Job 9:5; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 7, 6; Anthol. 11, 163,6; (Diogenes Laërtius 5, 82.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Job
9:5
Haggai
2:22
Matthew
21:12
Mark
11:15
Acts
15:16; 15:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2690 matches the Greek καταστρέφω (katastrephō),
which occurs 30 times in 26 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - And Lot having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until thou come to Zogora.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - And he said to him, Behold, I have had respect to [fn]thee also about this thing, that I should not overthrow the city about which thou hast spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - And he overthrew these cities, and all the country round about, and all that dwelt in the cities, and the plants springing out of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - And it came to pass that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, God remembered Abraam, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - (LXX 29:22) brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger:)—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - And Gedeon came, and behold a man was relating to his neighbour a dream, and he said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread rolling into the camp of Madiam, and it came as far as a tent, and smote it, and it fell, and it turned it up, and the tent fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13 - And I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measure of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Achaab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a jar is wiped, and turned upside down in the wiping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:12 - And may the God whose name dwells there, overthrow every king and people who shall stretch out his hand to alter or destroy the house of God which is in Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be diligently attended to.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:5 - Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: who overturns them in anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:10 - And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What hast thou done?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:15 - If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:19 - He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 - Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:22 - And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, a man will not feel secure of his own life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:9 - He has stretched forth his hand on the sharp rock, and turned up mountains by the roots:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:39 - (LXX 88:40) Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his sanctuary, casting it to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:19 - And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 - Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - (LXX 30:12) As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha and they that sojourned in her, saith the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - (LXX 27:40) As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:6 - Vau. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodoma, the city that was overthrown very suddenly, and none laboured against her with their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:11 - I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and ye became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - And Jonas began to enter into the city about a day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said, Yet three days, and Nineve shall be overthrown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:22 - and I will overthrow the thrones of kings, and I will destroy the power of the kings of the nations; and I will overthrow chariots and riders; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword striving against his brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:4 - Because one will say, Idumea has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus saith the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set himself for ever.
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