noun · masculine
kataklusmos
Strong’sG2627
a deluge, flood
stem kataklusm-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
κατα-κλυσμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< κατακλύζω), [in LXX chiefly for מַבּוּל, Ge 6:17, al.; also for שֶׁטֶף, Ps 31 (32):6, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2627 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkat-ak-looce-mos'
an inundation
Fromfrom G2626;
King Jamesflood.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
flood, Refs 5th c.BC+; inundation, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, κ. τῶν πραγμάτων political deluge, Refs 4th c.BC+
II Medic.. affusion, douche, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kataklusmos2×κατακλυσμὸς | kataklusmois |
| object accusative | kataklusmon1×κατακλυσμὸν | kataklusmoin |
| direct address vocative | kataklusmor | kataklusmoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kataklusmou1×κατακλυσμοῦ | kataklusmoiu |
| to, for dative | kataklusmo | kataklusmoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kataklusmo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
kataklusmos“flood”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 24:39kai ouk gnōskala heōs erchata tos kataklusmos kai airata hapantoin, houtōs eti kai …And they were oblivious until the flood came and swept them all away …
Luke 17:27… eis tan kibōtan, kai erchata tos kataklusmos kai apolata pantoin.… Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
kataklusmon“flood”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Peter 2:5… alla ogdoon Nōe dikaiosunau kērukon fulassata, kataklusmon kosmo aseboiu epagarantos,… ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved …
kataklusmou“flood”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Matthew 24:38… en tai hēmerai tai pro tou kataklusmou trōgarōntois kai pinarōntois, gamarōntois kai gamizarōntois, …For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying …