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Lexicon :: Strong's G2692 - katastrophē

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καταστροφή
Transliteration
katastrophē (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-as-trof-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:715,1093

Strong’s Definitions

καταστροφή katastrophḗ, kat-as-trof-ay'; from G2690; an overturn ("catastrophe"), i.e. demolition; figuratively, apostasy:—overthrow, subverting.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G2692 in the following manner: subverting (1x), overthrow (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G2692 in the following manner: subverting (1x), overthrow (1x).
  1. overthrow, destruction

    1. of cities

  2. metaph. of the extinction of a spirit of consecration

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καταστροφή katastrophḗ, kat-as-trof-ay'; from G2690; an overturn ("catastrophe"), i.e. demolition; figuratively, apostasy:—overthrow, subverting.
STRONGS G2692:
καταστροφή, καταστροφῆς, (καταστρέφω) (Vulg.subversio (eversio)), overthrow, destruction: of cities, 2 Peter 2:6 (WH omits; Tr marginal reading brackets καταστροφή) (Genesis 19:29); metaphorically, of the extinction of a spirit of consecration to Christ (A. V. the subverting): 2 Timothy 2:14. (Aeschylus Eum. 490.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
19:29
2 Timothy
2:14
2 Peter
2:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2692 matches the Greek καταστροφή (katastrophē),
which occurs 9 times in 9 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:7 - But it was ordained by[fn] God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:19 - Behold, this is the joy of his way,
and out of the soil others will spring.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:21 - Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:17 - “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out?
That their calamity comes upon them?
That God[fn] distributes pains in his anger?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:7 - “Let my enemy be as the wicked,
and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:18 - but these men lie in wait for their own blood;
they set an ambush for their own lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 - when terror strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7 - For they sow the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
it shall yield no flour;
if it were to yield,
strangers would devour it.
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