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G4500 ῥοιζηδόν (rhoizēdón)
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ῥοιζηδόν Adv with a great noise

Strong's Definition

adverb from a derivative of rhoizos (a whir); whizzingly, i.e. with a crash

KJV Usage: with a great noise

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

advb.

14.85 · Physical Events and States · Sound

with a shrill noise, with a rushing noise (derivative of ῥοῖζος ‘the noise made by something passing swiftly through the air,’ not occurring in the NT) pertaining to a sudden noise made by swift movement The expression ‘with a rushing noise’ may be rendered as ‘suddenly and with a roar’ or ‘quickly and with a lot of noise.’

2PE 3:10

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ῥοιζηδόν, (ῥοιζέω to make a confused noise), adv., ‘with a loud noise’: 2 Pet. iii.10. (Nicand. ther. 556; Geop., al.)* ‘Pouda [Ῥομφά, ‘Poudar, see Ῥεμφάν.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ῥοιζηδόν rhoizēdon 1x

with a noise, with a crash, etc., 2 Pet. 3:10*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* ῥοιζηδόν adv.

(< ῥοῖζος, the whistling of an arrow),

with rushing sound (as of roaring flames): II Pe 3:10.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ῥοιζηδόν, “with crackling crash,” is found in the NT only in 2 Pet 319; see Wetstein and Mayor ad /. “Ρομφά. For the various forms which this proper noun takes in Ac 743 see WH Woves?, p. 92. In LXX Amos 576 from which the quotation in Ac is taken the form is ‘Pedy or Ῥεφάν replacing iS of the Heb. text, and the word is understood as a corruption of the Assyrian name for the planet Saturn (= Chiun).

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ῥοιζηδόν (rhoizēdon) — with a roar. Included with: ῥοιζ-ηδά, adverb with rushing sound or motion, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; also ῥοιζ-ηδόν, [NT+5th c.BC+]

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