κατακλυσμός
deluge
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G2627 appears in the Genitive case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
κατακλυσμος (kataklysmós) is a Greek noun most often rendered “deluge.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 4 verses. Matthew dominates its distribution — 2 of 4 verses. It first appears in Matthew 24:38. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2627 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 75%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 25%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Flood 4×
- American Standard Version: Flood 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Flood 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Flood 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2627 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2627 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2627 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2627 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- inundation, deluge
Word origin
Derived from κατακλυζω (kataklýzō) (G2626) — to submerge.
From G2626 ; an inundation : - flood.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2627 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κατακλυσμὸς kataklysmòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 24:39 | 2 |
| κατακλυσμοῦ kataklysmoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 24:38 | 1 |
| κατακλυσμὸν kataklysmòn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Peter 2:5 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κατακλυσμος appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 3 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:17 κατακλυσμός
- Psalms 28:10 κατακλυσμός
- Nahum 1:8 κατακλυσμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2627) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:17 κατακλυσμός I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
- Genesis 7:6 κατακλυσμός Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
- Genesis 7:7 κατακλυσμός Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
- Genesis 7:10 κατακλυσμός It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.
- Genesis 7:17 κατακλυσμός The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
- Genesis 9:11 κατακλυσμός I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
- Genesis 9:15 κατακλυσμός and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 9:28 κατακλυσμός Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
- Genesis 10:1 κατακλυσμός Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
- Genesis 10:32 κατακλυσμός These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
- Genesis 11:10 κατακλυσμός This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
- Psalms 28:10 κατακλυσμός
- Psalms 31:6 κατακλυσμός I hate those who regard lying vanities, But I trust in Yahweh.
- Nahum 1:8 κατακλυσμός But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2627) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
