Strong G2690καταστρέφω
to overturn
- Transliteration
- katastrephō
- Pronunciation
- kat-as-tref'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
κατα-στρέφω
[in LXX for הָפַךְ, etc., Gen.19:21, Jer.20:16, al.;]
1. to turn down, turn over; as, the soil.
2. to overturn, overthrow: Mat.21:12, Mrk.11:15; pass. pf. ptcp., Act.15:16 (LXX).†
(AS)
[in LXX for הָפַךְ, etc., Gen.19:21, Jer.20:16, al.;]
1. to turn down, turn over; as, the soil.
2. to overturn, overthrow: Mat.21:12, Mrk.11:15; pass. pf. ptcp., Act.15:16 (LXX).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2690 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- overthrew2
First verses
- Matthew 21:12And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
- Mark 11:15And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
καταστρέφω,
perfect κατέστραφα (transitive) [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 23.11.2:)] —passive, future - [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (στρᾰφήσομαι Dio Cassius Historicus [{2-3rd c.AD}] 42.42)]: perfect imperative [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (κατεστρέφθω Epicurus Philosophus [{4-3rd c.BC}])] (see. below): pluperfect 3rd.person etc for 1st.person, 2nd.person singular -έστραπτο [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus (see. below); 3rd._person_ etc for 1st._person_, 2nd._person_ _plural_ -εστράφατο 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 39.5)]:— turn down, trample on, [Refs (ποσσί “hymnus ad Apollinem” 73)]; turn the soil, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oec.” 17.10; κάνθαρον κ.)] turn it upside down, so as to drain it, [LXX+4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 115, compare 3rd c.BC: Sotades Lyricus Comedy texts 1.33, LXX.2Ki.21.13; κατεστραμμένῳ τῷ ὀστράκῳ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 622b8)].
II upset, overturn, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (τὴν πόλιν κ. Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Equites” 274; τὰς εἰκόνας 3rd c.AD: Diogenes Laertius 5.82)]; ruin, undo, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (βίον καὶ τέκνα καὶ πόλεις 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 23.11.2)]; τινα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“AP” 11.163 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus):)] —passive, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (τὰ προάστεια κατέστραπτο 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.4.8)].
II.2 middle, subject to oneself, subdue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (πολέμῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.64, compare 71, +others, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.13, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.244, etc.; νόσον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 477)]; τοὺς μὲν κατεστρέψατο ἐς φόρου ἀπαγωγήν subdued and made them tributary, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.6)]: with infinitive, [Refs (Ἰωνίην κατεστρέψατο δασμοφόρον εἶναι [prev\. author] 7.51)].
II.3 passive, in aorist and perfect, to be subdued, [Refs ([prev\. author] 1.130, 68)]: pluperfect, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.29)]: c.infinitive, ἀκούειν σοῦ κατέστραμμαι am constrained to hear, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Ag.” 956)]: perfect passive also in sense of middle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.171; πάντα κατέστραπται καὶ ἔχει 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.6, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “HG” 5.2.38, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.21.)]
III of a floating solid, right itself, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “Fluit.” 2.9 (_passive_).)]
III.b intransitive, return, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (εἰς ταὐτόν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 921a26, compare “Mech.” 856b17.)]
IV turn round, direct, [καταπάλτην] train it on the enemy, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus “Bel.82.14”; especially towards an end, ποῖ καταστρέφεις λόγων τελευτή; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Pers.” 787; οὕτω κατέστρεψεν ἡ τύχη ταῦτα, ὥστ᾽ ἐναντία γενέσθαι τοῖς προσδοκωμένοις Dinarchus Orator [{4-3rd c.BC}] 1.32)]; κατέστρεψεν εἰς φιλανθρωπίαν τοὺς λόγους guided the conversations to a friendly end, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.39)]: hence, bring to an end, κ. τὴν βίβλον, τὸν λόγον, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.118.10, 22.9.4 (_passive_, ταῦτα μὲν αὐτοῦ κατεστρέφθω Epicurus Philosophus [{4-3rd c.BC}] “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 14.6); especially κ. τὸν βίον Cebes 10, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “NA” 13.21, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Thes.” 19,etc.; ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων [prev\. author] “Comp. Sol.Publ.” 1)]: absolutely, come to an end, close, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.2.1; τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ -στρέφοντος Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Caesar” 51)]; especially end life, die, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Ep.” 3p.61U., 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Them.” 31, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “An.” 7.3.1, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 5.8.10; κ. εἰς ἀπώλειαν)] end in.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.70; τοὺς λόγους ἐπὶ τὰ πράγματα -στρέφειν οἰόμενος Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Philopoemen” 4)]; ἡ ἡμέρα κ. εἰς ὥραν δεκάτην inclines towards.., [Refs ([prev\. author] “Sull.” 29.)]
IV.2 Rhet., metaphorically, λέξις κατεστραμμένη periodic style, opposed to εἰρομένη, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rh.” 1409a26, cf. Demetrius Astrologus “Eloc.” 12, 21.)]
V screw or stretch tight, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (αἱ κατεστραμμέναι χορδαί 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 803a28)].
perfect κατέστραφα (transitive) [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 23.11.2:)] —passive, future - [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (στρᾰφήσομαι Dio Cassius Historicus [{2-3rd c.AD}] 42.42)]: perfect imperative [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (κατεστρέφθω Epicurus Philosophus [{4-3rd c.BC}])] (see. below): pluperfect 3rd.person etc for 1st.person, 2nd.person singular -έστραπτο [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus (see. below); 3rd._person_ etc for 1st._person_, 2nd._person_ _plural_ -εστράφατο 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 39.5)]:— turn down, trample on, [Refs (ποσσί “hymnus ad Apollinem” 73)]; turn the soil, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oec.” 17.10; κάνθαρον κ.)] turn it upside down, so as to drain it, [LXX+4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 115, compare 3rd c.BC: Sotades Lyricus Comedy texts 1.33, LXX.2Ki.21.13; κατεστραμμένῳ τῷ ὀστράκῳ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 622b8)].
II upset, overturn, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (τὴν πόλιν κ. Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Equites” 274; τὰς εἰκόνας 3rd c.AD: Diogenes Laertius 5.82)]; ruin, undo, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (βίον καὶ τέκνα καὶ πόλεις 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 23.11.2)]; τινα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“AP” 11.163 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus):)] —passive, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (τὰ προάστεια κατέστραπτο 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.4.8)].
II.2 middle, subject to oneself, subdue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (πολέμῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.64, compare 71, +others, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.13, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.244, etc.; νόσον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 477)]; τοὺς μὲν κατεστρέψατο ἐς φόρου ἀπαγωγήν subdued and made them tributary, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.6)]: with infinitive, [Refs (Ἰωνίην κατεστρέψατο δασμοφόρον εἶναι [prev\. author] 7.51)].
II.3 passive, in aorist and perfect, to be subdued, [Refs ([prev\. author] 1.130, 68)]: pluperfect, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.29)]: c.infinitive, ἀκούειν σοῦ κατέστραμμαι am constrained to hear, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Ag.” 956)]: perfect passive also in sense of middle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.171; πάντα κατέστραπται καὶ ἔχει 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.6, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “HG” 5.2.38, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.21.)]
III of a floating solid, right itself, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “Fluit.” 2.9 (_passive_).)]
III.b intransitive, return, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (εἰς ταὐτόν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 921a26, compare “Mech.” 856b17.)]
IV turn round, direct, [καταπάλτην] train it on the enemy, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus “Bel.82.14”; especially towards an end, ποῖ καταστρέφεις λόγων τελευτή; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Pers.” 787; οὕτω κατέστρεψεν ἡ τύχη ταῦτα, ὥστ᾽ ἐναντία γενέσθαι τοῖς προσδοκωμένοις Dinarchus Orator [{4-3rd c.BC}] 1.32)]; κατέστρεψεν εἰς φιλανθρωπίαν τοὺς λόγους guided the conversations to a friendly end, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.39)]: hence, bring to an end, κ. τὴν βίβλον, τὸν λόγον, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.118.10, 22.9.4 (_passive_, ταῦτα μὲν αὐτοῦ κατεστρέφθω Epicurus Philosophus [{4-3rd c.BC}] “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 14.6); especially κ. τὸν βίον Cebes 10, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “NA” 13.21, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Thes.” 19,etc.; ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων [prev\. author] “Comp. Sol.Publ.” 1)]: absolutely, come to an end, close, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.2.1; τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ -στρέφοντος Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Caesar” 51)]; especially end life, die, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Ep.” 3p.61U., 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Them.” 31, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “An.” 7.3.1, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 5.8.10; κ. εἰς ἀπώλειαν)] end in.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.70; τοὺς λόγους ἐπὶ τὰ πράγματα -στρέφειν οἰόμενος Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Philopoemen” 4)]; ἡ ἡμέρα κ. εἰς ὥραν δεκάτην inclines towards.., [Refs ([prev\. author] “Sull.” 29.)]
IV.2 Rhet., metaphorically, λέξις κατεστραμμένη periodic style, opposed to εἰρομένη, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rh.” 1409a26, cf. Demetrius Astrologus “Eloc.” 12, 21.)]
V screw or stretch tight, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (αἱ κατεστραμμέναι χορδαί 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 803a28)].