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noun · feminine

Greekκαταστροφή (katastrofē)
Biblang

katastrofas

Strong’sG2692

overthrow, destruction

stem katastrof-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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-στροφή, -ῆς, ἡ

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

1. overthrow: II Pe 2:6 (WH, om.).
2. Metaph., subversion, upsetting (cf. καθαίρεσις, II Co 13:10): II Ti 2:14.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2692 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkat-as-trof-ay'

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

Fromfrom G2690;

King Jamesoverthrow, subverting.

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
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+

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.

extinction1×ruin1×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativekatastrofaskatastrofais
object accusativekatastrofankatastrofain
direct address vocativekatastrofarkatastrofair
of, belonging to genitivekatastrofaukatastrofaiu
to, for dativekatastrofa2×καταστροφῇkatastrofai

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
katastrofstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

katastrofa 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

katastrofa“ruin”to, fordative singular2×

2 Timothy 2:14… mē logomacharō, epi oudenem chrēsimem, epi katastrofa toiu akouarōntoiu.… only in leading the listeners to ruin.

2 Peter 2:6“extinction”kai polain Sodomeiu kai Gomorrau tefrarantos katastrofa katakrinata, hupodeigmem mellarōnteiu aseboi titharēntos,if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what …