κατακλυσμός
kataklysmós · G2627 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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flood, deluge
A large flood with destructive force (more intense and extensive than πλήμμυρα ‘flood,’)
ExamplesMatthew 24:38 “For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
Matthew 24:39 and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Luke 17:27 people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, and they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἡμέραday 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔρχομαιto come 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπάγωto cause to be 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόbefore 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- πλήμμυρα plḗmmyra · G4132 · flood, high water
- Both terms denote a catastrophic inundation of water, occupying the same narrow semantic field of flooding. One emphasizes the surging or tidal motion of the water, the other the resulting state of deluge — a real, specific convergence between two closely related flood-terminology words, not a coincidental pairing.
In the other Testament 1 word
- מַבּוּל mabbûwl · H3999 · flood
- Hebrew מַבּוּל (mabbûl) is the direct etymological and semantic equivalent of Greek κατακλυσμός, both denoting catastrophic flood/deluge (particularly the Noahic flood narrative), with the Greek term serving as the standard LXX rendering of the Hebrew.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Flood, deluge14.34
- In Matthew 24:38, Jesus describes the days before judgment, “as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,” using this word for the great deluge of Noah's time.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κατακλυσμοῦ, ὁ (κατακλύζω), inundation, deluge: of Noah's deluge, Mt 24:38; Lk 17:27; 2…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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