Being flooded (2626) (katakluzo from kata = intensifies meaning + kludon = dashing or surging wave, a surge, a violent agitation of the sea from kluzo = to billow, dash over) means to surge over completely, to inundate (cover with a flood, figuratively to overwhelm), to deluge, to overflow or to submerge. The word pictures a large flood with destructive force (and implies complete, destructive overflow) and is used in its literal sense by Peter. Katakluzo is used metaphorically in several OT passages (see Septuagint uses below), which picture an enemy force as "overflowing" (Jer 47:2) or a manifestation of God's anger (Ezek 13:13) In 2Peter 2:5 Peter the related noun kataklusmos which means “an inundation, deluge.” (Used only of Noah's flood in Mt 24:38, 39; Lk 17:27; 2Pe2:5) In the Greek NT katakluzo is only used to refer to Noah’s Flood (cf. Mt 24:38,39; Luke 17:27; 2Peter 2:5) for other words were used for other, lesser, local floods (cf. Luke 6:48 [plemmúra = tide, floodtide inundation], Rev 12:15 [potamophoretos]-note). Note the use of the historical aorist tense which signifies a past completed action. It has been well said that those who cannot remember (or refuse to acknowledge the reality of) the past are condemned to repeat it (cp "condemned" in 2Pe 2:6-note; "condemnation" of ungodly in Jude 1:4, Heb 11:7-note = Noah's obedient faith "condemned the world"! [Corollary: a "faith" that does not obey is suspect! We are not speaking of "perfection" for none of achieve perfect obedience, but of general "direction" of our lives as manifest by our choices, our lifestyle - are we journeying "heavenward" or "hell-ward"?]). Katakluzo gives us our English word cataclysm (from Latin "cataclysmos" - deluge) which Webster defines as a momentous and violent event marked by overwhelming upheaval and demolition, an event that brings great changes, a violent upheaval; a disastrous flood; a deluge; calamity, woe, disaster. In Geology cataclysm is "another name for catastrophe...any sudden and violent change in the earth's surface caused by flooding, earthquake or some other rapid process". (Collins Dictionary) Comment: Webster's 1828 version says "cataclysm is used "particularly (of) the flood in Noah's day." It is interesting that the modern version has "jettisoned" this description in its more "enlightened" definition! The Concise Oxford English Dictionary has an interesting note on the origin of cataclysm, explaining that it originated in the seventeenth century, "originally denoting the biblical Flood". Katakluzo is used 9x in the Septuagint (Lxx) and is used literally as in 2Peter but is also used metaphorically to describe enemy forces who will overflow the land of Israel (Jer 47:2). Job 14:19 Water wears away stones, Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth; So You destroy man's hope. Psalm 78:20 "Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out, And streams were overflowing; Can He give bread also? Will He provide meat for His people?" Jeremiah 47:2 Thus says the LORD: "Behold, waters are going to rise from the north And become an overflowing torrent, And overflow the land and all its fullness, The city and those who live in it; And the men will cry out, And every inhabitant of the land will wail. Comment: Metaphor for Babylon coming out of the North - Jer 1:14, 4:6, Jer 25:1, 9, 11, 12. The NET Bible paraphrases the passage to help the reader understand Jeremiah is using a term of comparison, specifically a simile (use of "as" or "like") = ""Look! Enemies are gathering in the north like water rising in a river. They will be like an overflowing stream." Ezekiel 13:11-note so tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall. A flooding rain will come, and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a violent wind will break out....13-note Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath. Comment: False prophets had lulled the people into false security. Phony “peace” promises (while sin continued on the brink of God’s judgment) was a way, so to speak, of erecting a defective “wall” and whitewashing it to make it look good. Such an unsafe “wall” was doomed to collapse when God would bring His storm, picturing the invaders’ assault (v11) (Ed: The enemy assault was depicted as a flood. Have you ever been in a devastating flood? We have all seen the pictures of the destruction and relative helplessness of men in the face of sudden, overwhelming floodwaters.) .The ”whitewash“ was their false prophecies; and when Jerusalem was destroyed, this would be revealed. (MacArthur, J.: The MacArthur Study Bible Nashville: Word) Ezekiel 38:22 "With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone. Daniel 11:10-note "His sons will mobilize and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one of them will keep on coming and overflow and pass through, that he may again wage war up to his very fortress....22-note "The overflowing forces will be flooded away before him and shattered, and also the prince of the covenant....26-note "Those who eat his choice food will destroy him, and his army will overflow, but many will fall down slain. The universal flood which drowned the whole earth and altered the originally created world order is the second great divine cataclysm (the first being the "cataclysm" of creation, the Divine "Big Bang"!) that soundly refutes the idea of uniformatarianism. The people living on earth had never seen rain or the fountains of the deep broken up, but these events happened just the same (Gen 7:11ff). The ancient “scientists” could have argued as the scoffers of the last days will argue, Everything goes on as it did from the beginning. Life is uniform so nothing unusual can happen. But it did in fact happen! GENESIS EMPHASIZES THE FLOOD! It is worth noting that Moses took two chapters to describe the creation of the world, one chapter to portray the Fall, but devoted four chapters to the Flood. In so doing we clearly see the nature of God's dealings with mankind both in regard to His judgment of sin and His mercy toward sinners.