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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 Box Gen 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - Then Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the [fn]valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - And he said to him, “Behold, I grant you this [fn]request also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - and He overthrew those cities, and all the [fn]valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 -

Thus it happened, when God destroyed the cities of the [fn]valley, that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - ‘All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, [fn]unsown and nothing sprouting, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - Then Gideon came, and behold, a man was recounting a dream to his friend. And he said, “Behold, I [fn]had a dream; [fn]a loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it [fn]upside down so that the tent lay flat.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13 - ‘And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the level of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish—he wipes it and turns it upside down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:12 -

“May the God who has caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who [fn]stretches out his hand to change it, so as to destroy that house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued this decree, let it be done with all diligence!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:5 -

“God is the One who removes the mountains, they know not how,

When He overturns them in His anger;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:10 -

“If He sweeps by or shuts up,

Or calls an assembly, who can turn Him around?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:15 -

“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;

And He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:19 -

“He makes priests walk [fn]barefoot

And subverts the enduring ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 -

“O [fn]you who tear yourself in your anger—

For your sake is the earth to be forsaken,

Or the rock to be moved from its place?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:22 -

“But He drags off the mighty by His power;

He rises, but no one believes in his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:9 -

“He sends his hand forth to the flint;

He overturns the mountains at the [fn]base.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:39 -

You have spurned the covenant of Your [fn]slave;

You have profaned his crown to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 -

Your land is desolate;

Your cities are burned with fire;

Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence;

It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:19 -

And it will be that Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the [fn]honor of the Chaldeans’ pride,

Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 -

But let that man be like the cities

Which Yahweh overthrew without [fn]relenting,

And let him hear an outcry in the morning

And a [fn]shout of war at noon,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - “Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors,” says Yahweh, “no one will live there, nor will a son of man sojourn in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 -

“As when God overthrew Sodom

And Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares Yahweh,

“No man will live there,

Nor will any son of man sojourn in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:6 -

Vav

So the [fn]iniquity of the daughter of my people

Is greater than the [fn]sin of Sodom,

Which was overthrown as in a moment,

And no hands [fn]whirled toward her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:11 -

“I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

And you were like a firebrand [fn]delivered from a blaze;

Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - Then Jonah began to go into the city, one day’s walk; and he called out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:22 - ‘I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the [fn]nations; and I will overthrow the chariots and their riders, and the horses and their riders will go down, everyone by the sword of another.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:4 - Though Edom says, “We have been demolished, but we will [fn]return and build up the waste places”; thus says Yahweh of hosts, “They may build, but I will pull down; and men will call them a [fn]territory of wickedness, and the people [fn]toward whom Yahweh is indignant forever.”
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