καταστροφή
overthrow
‘overthrow’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2692 appears in the Book of 2 Peter — 1 distinct verse. 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.
2 Peter
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.
The Greek noun καταστροφη centers on the idea of “overthrow.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. The word gravitates to 2 Timothy (50%), then 2 Peter. First canonically at 2 Timothy 2:14, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2692 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 50%
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: Overthrow 1×, Subverting 1×
- American Standard Version: Overthrow 1×, Subverting 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Destruction 1×, Ruin 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Destruction 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2692 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2692 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2692 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2692 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- overthrow, destruction
- metaph. of the extinction of a spirit of consecration
Word origin
Derived from καταστρεφω (katastréphō) (G2690) — to overthrow.
From G2690 ; an overturn (catastrophe) that is demolition ; figuratively apostasy : - overthrow subverting.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word καταστροφη appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 6 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:29 καταστροφή
- 2 Chronicles 22:7 καταστροφή
- Job 8:19 καταστροφή
- Proverbs 1:18 καταστροφή
- Daniel 7:28 καταστροφή
- Hosea 8:7 καταστροφή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2692) 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 19:29 καταστροφή It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
- 2 Chronicles 22:7 καταστροφή Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
- Job 8:19 καταστροφή Behold, this is the joy of his way: Out of the earth shall others spring.
- Job 15:21 καταστροφή A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
- Job 21:17 καταστροφή "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?
- Job 27:7 καταστροφή "Let my enemy be as the wicked, Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
- Proverbs 1:18 καταστροφή But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
- Proverbs 1:27 καταστροφή When calamity overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you.
- Daniel 7:28 καταστροφή Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
- Hosea 8:7 καταστροφή For they sow the wind, And they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2692) 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.
