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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 - Lot raised his eyes and saw all the [fn]vicinity of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt [fn]going toward 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, not to overthrow the town 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 surrounding area, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 -

So it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the surrounding area, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - ‘All its land is brimstone and salt, burned debris, [fn]unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows on it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - When Gideon came, behold, a man was relating 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 collapsed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13 - ‘I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean just as one wipes a bowl, wiping it and turning 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]attempts to [fn]change it, so as to destroy that house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued this decree; it is to be carried out with all diligence!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:5 -

“It is God who removes the mountains, and they do not know 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 passes by or apprehends people,

Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?

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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 [fn]inundate the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:19 -

“He makes priests walk [fn]barefoot,

And overthrows the secure ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 -

“[fn]You who tear yourself in your anger—

Should the earth be abandoned for your sake,

Or the rock 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 has assurance of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:9 -

“He puts his hand on 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 [fn]repudiated the covenant of Your servant;

You have profaned his crown [fn]in the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 -

Your land is desolate,

Your cities are burned with fire;

As for your fields, strangers are devouring them in front of you;

It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:19 -

And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory 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 may that man be like the cities

Which the LORD overthrew without [fn]relenting,

And may he hear an outcry in the morning

And [fn]an alarm for 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 the LORD, “no one will live there, nor will [fn]anyone of mankind reside 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 the LORD,

“No one will live there,

Nor will [fn]anyone of mankind reside in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:6 -

For the [fn]wrongdoing of the daughter of my people

Is greater than the [fn]sin of Sodom,

Which was overthrown as in a moment,

[fn]And no hands were turned 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 log snatched from a fire;

Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 3:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:22 - ‘And I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the power 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, every one 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 beaten down, but we will [fn]return and build up the ruins”; this is what the LORD of armies says: “They may build, but I will tear down; and people will call them the [fn]territory of wickedness, and the people [fn]with whom the LORD is indignant forever.”
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