G2692: καταστροφή (katastrophḗ)

G2692 καταστροφή (katastrophḗ)

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Quick Definition

καταστροφή, ῆς, ἡ n.f. overthrow, destruction

Strong's Definition

from 2690; an overturn ("catastrophe"), i.e. demolition; figuratively, apostasy

KJV Usage: overthrow, subverting

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

καταστροφή (G2692)

noun, f. | -ῆς | στρέφω

20.17 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Harm, Wound

to cause harm, to cause ruin to to do serious harm to, with the implication of misleading

2TI 2:14

20.49 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Destroy

complete ruin, destruction a state of total ruin or destruction

2PE 2:6

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

κατα-στροφή, -ῆς, ἡ, (καταστρέφω), (Vulg. subversio, [eversio]), overthrow, destruction: of cities, 2 Pet. ii. 6 [WH om. Trmrg. br. καταστρ.] (Gen. xix. 29); metaph. of the extinction of a spirit of consecration to Christ, ΓΑ. V. the subverting]: 2 Tim. ii. 14. (Aeschyl. Eum. 490.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

καταστροφή katastrophē 2x

an overthrow, destruction, 2 Pet. 2:6; met. overthrow of right principle or faith, utter detriment, perversion, 2 Tim. 2:14*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

κατα-στροφή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< καταστρέφω), [in LXX: Jb 21:17, Pr 1:27 (אֵיד), al.;]

overthrow: II Pe 2:6 (WH, om.).

Metaph., subversion, upsetting (cf. καθαίρεσις, II Co 13:10): II Ti 2:14.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

καταστροφή. in the sense of death, has been ingeniously read in C. and B. ii. p. 473, No. 322, an inscr. commemorating a woman who died suddenly in the third year of her married life—Kat(a)otpad[a]s τυχοῦσα, συντόμως ἔλυσε τὸν [γ]άμον. In Menander Tleptketp. 12 death is described as τοῦ tiv καταστροφή tis. For καταστροφεύς (not in LS) Herwerden (Zex. s.v.) cites the new classical farce, P Oxy IIL. 403'? πάλι λαλεῖς, καταστροφεῦ ; “are you talking again, you bungler?”’ (Edd.).

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

καταστροφή (katastrophē) — ruin. καταστροφ-ή, ἡ, overturning, [Refs 5th c.BC+] (Lyric poetry, plural).

2. subjugation, reduction, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. return of vibrating string to axial position, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

II. end, close, conclusion, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. βίου, i.e. death, [Refs 5th c.BC+] the event of their life's end, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τὴν κ. τῆς βίβλου ποιεῖσθαι εἰς.. [Refs]; in the drama, dénouement, ending, [Refs 4th c.BC+].

III. ruin, undoing, κ. γῆς (of a person) [Refs 4th c.BC+]

IV. crane, [Refs 6th c.AD+]