καταρράκτης
waterfall, cataract
Where this word appears
Every passage where καταρράκτης appears in the Greek Septuagint — 11 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 7:11 καταρράκτης In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood-gates of heaven were opened.
- Genesis 8:2 καταρράκτης And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.
- Leviticus 11:17 καταρράκτης and the night-raven and the cormorant and the stork,
- Deuteronomy 14:17 καταρράκτης and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,
- 2 Kings 7:2 καταρράκτης And the officer on whose hand the king rested, answered Elisaie, and said, Behold, if the Lord shall make flood-gates in heaven, might this thing be? and Elisaie said, Behold, you shall see with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof.
- 2 Kings 7:19 καταρράκτης And the officer answered Elisaie, and said, Behold, if the Lord makes flood-gates in heaven, shall this thing be? and Elisaie said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat thereof.
- Psalms 41:8 καταρράκτης By day the Lord will command his mercy, and manifest it by night: with me is prayer to the God of my life.
- Jeremiah 20:2 καταρράκτης And he struck him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.
- Jeremiah 20:3 καταρράκτης And Paschor brought Jeremias out of the dungeon: and Jeremias said to him, The Lord has not called your name Paschor, but Exile.
- Jeremiah 36:21 καταρράκτης Thus says the Lord concerning Achiab, and concerning Sedekias; Behold, I will deliver them into the hands of the king of Babylon; and he shall strike them in your sight.
- Malachi 3:10 καταρράκτης The year is completed, and you⌃ have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, says the Lord Almighty, see if I will not open to you the torrents of heaven, and pour out my blessing upon you, until you⌃ are satisfied.
About this word
About this word
καταρράκτης (katarráktēs), “waterfall, cataract,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 11 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →