Quick Definition
I scatter on the ground
Strong's Definition
to strew down, i.e. (by implication) to prostrate (slay)
Derivation: from G2596 (κατά) and G4766 (στρώννυμι);
KJV Usage: overthrow
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
καταστρώννυμι: 1 aorist passive κατεστρωθην; to strew over (the ground); to prostrate, slay (cf. our to lay low): 1Co_10:5 (A. V. overthrown). (Num_14:16; Jdt_7:14 Jdt_14:4; 2Ma_5:26, etc.; Herodotus 8, 53; 9, 76; Xenophon, Cyril 3, 3, 64.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
καταστρώννυμι katastrōnnymi 1x
to lay flat; pass. to be laid prostrate in death, 1Co_10:5
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κατα -στρώννυμι ,
[in LXX : Num_14:16 ( H7819 ), Job_12:23 ( H7849 ), Jth.4, 2Mac.4;]
1. to strew or spread over.
2. to lay low, overthrow: 1Co_10:5 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
καταστρώννυμι [page 333]
καταστρώννυμι is used of spreading or laying dust in P Tor I. 1 viii .18 (B.C. 117 6) μεταφέροντας αὐτοὺς κονίαν καταστρωννύειν ἐπὶ τοῦ δρόμου τοῦ Ἄμμωνος : cf. Aristeas 319 τρικλίνου πᾶσαν κατάστρωσιν . For the derived sense of overthrow, prostrate, as in 1Co_10:5 , see P Leid C ii. 28 (B.C. 163 2) (= I. p. 119) καταστροννύει ( l. ωννύει ) αὐτή [ν , prosternit ipsam (Ed.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
καταστρώννυμι and -ύω fut. -στρώσω aor1 pass. -εστρώθην "to lay low", Eur. , Xen. :—Pass., κατέστρωντο οἱ βάρβαροι Hdt. καταστορέννυμι part. fem. καστορνῦσα [Etym: part. fem. καστορνῦσα as if from καταστόρνυμι] fut. -στορέσω "to over-spread or cover with" a thing, τί τινι Il. "to spread upon", Od. "to throw down, lay low", Hdt. ; καταστ. κύματα, Lat. sternere aequor, Anth.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
κατα-στρώννυμι
[in LXX: Num.14:16 (שָׁחַט), Job.12:23 (שָׁטַח), שָׁטַח), Jdt.4.1-15; Jdt.2.1-28 Mac.4 ;]
__1. to strew or spread over.
__2. to lay low, overthrow: 1Co.10:5.†
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