Flood
κατακλυσμόςStrong’s G2627kataklusmos
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Kataklusmos is the Greek word usually translated “flood” and “flood upon”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;”
Meaning
Usually translated “flood” and “flood upon”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- flood 3
- flood upon 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 2
- Luke 1
- 2 Peter 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 24:38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
- Matthew 24:39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
- Luke 17:27They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Greek dictionary
κατακλυσμός kataklusmos · flood
κατα-κλυσμός, -οῦ, ὁ (κατακλύζω), [in LXX chiefly for מַבּוּל, Gen.6:17, al.; also for שֶׁטֶף, Psa.32:6, al. ;] a flood, deluge: Mat.24:38-39 Luk.17:27, 2Pe.2:5.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLOOD, noun
flud.
- A great flow of water; a body of moving water; particularly, a body of water, rising, swelling and overflowing land not usually covered with water.
- The flood by way of eminence, the deluge; the great body of water which inundated the earth in the days of Noah.
- A river; a sense chiefly poetical.
- The flowing of the tide; the semi-diurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; opposed to ebb.
All definitions and other forms of “flood”
- A great quantity; an inundation; an overflowing; abundance; superabundance; as a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
- A great body or stream of any fluid substance; as a flood of light; a flood of lava.
- Menstrual discharge.
FLOOD, verb transitive
To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, to flood a meadow.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.