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Strong's #2692 - καταστροφή
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- overthrow, destruction
- of cities
- metaph. of the extinction of a spirit of consecration
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καταστροφ-ή, ἡ,
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1. overturning, θεσμίων A. Eu. 490 (lyr., pl.).
2. subjugation, reduction, Hdt. 1.6, 92, etc.; καταστροφὴν ποιήσασθαί τινος Id. 6.27; ἐπὶ Λιβύων καταστροφῇ πέμπεσθαι Id. 4.167; ἐπ' ἄλλων καταστροφῇ ἐξιέναι Th. 1.15: pl., καταστροφαὶ ἐθνῶν Phld. Rh. 1.255 S.
3. return of vibrating string to axial position, Arist. Pr. 921a17 (pl.).
II end, close, conclusion, ἄνευ δὲ λύπης οὐδαμοῦ καταστροφή A. Supp. 442; κ. βίου, i.e. death, S. OC 103, cf. Plb. 5.54.4, etc.; κ. τοῦ ζῆν Men. Pk. 12: without βίου, Th. 2.42, Epicur. Sent. 35; ποία κ. εὐδαιμονεστέρα; Arr. Epict. 4.10.17; τὸ τέλος αὐτῶν τῆς κ. the event of their life's end, Plb. 6.8.6; κ. καὶ συντέλεια τῶν γεγονότων Id. 3.1.9; κ. λαμβάνειν Id. 3.47.8; τὴν κ. τῆς βίβλου ποιεῖσθαι εἰς.. Id. 1.13.5; in the drama, dénouement, ending, Antiph. 191.19, Hero Aut. 22.6, Luc. Alex. 60, al., Euanth. et Donat. in CGF pp.67,69 K.: pl., αἱ κ. τῶν δραμάτων Plb. 3.48.8.
III ruin, undoing, κ. γῆς (of a person) Men. 548.8. crane, Stud.Pal. 10.259.13 (pl., vi A.D.).
καταστροφή, καταστροφῆς, ἡ (καταστρέφω) (Vulg. subversio (eversio)), overthrow, destruction: of cities, 2 Peter 2:6 (WH omits; Tr marginal reading brackets καταστροφή) (Genesis 19:29); metaphorically, of the extinction of a spirit of consecration to Christ (A. V. the subverting): 2 Timothy 2:14. (Aeschylus Eum. 490.)
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κατα -στροφή , -ῆς , ἡ ,
(< καταστρέφω ),
[in LXX: Job 21:17, Proverbs 1:27 (H343), al.;]
1. overthrow: 2 Peter 2:6 (WH, om.).
2. Metaph., subversion, upsetting (cf. καθαίρεσις , 2 Corinthians 13:10): 2 Timothy 2:14.†
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καταστροφή, in the sense of death, has be n ingeniously read in C. and B. ii. p. 473, No. 322, an inscr. commemorating a woman who died suddenly in the third year of her married life—κατ (α)στραφ [ῆ ]ς τυχοῦσα, συντόμως ἔλυσε τὸν [γ ]άμον. In Menander Περικειρ. 12 death is described as τοῦ ζῆν καταστροφή τις. For καταστροφεύς (not in LS.8) Herwerden (Lex. s.v.) cites the new classical farce, P Oxy III. 413.102 πάλι λαλ ̣εῖς, καταστροφεῦ; ";are you talking again, you bungler?"; (Edd.).
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