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Flood

πλήμμυραStrong’s G4132

plēmmura

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Plēmmura is the Greek word usually translated “when a flood”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.”
Luke 6:48 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “when a flood”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • when a flood 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    πλήμμυρα plēmmura · flood

    πλήμμυρα, -ης (for Att.. -ας, see Bl., § 7, 1) (πλήθω), [in LXX: π. γένεσθαι, Job.40:18 (23) (נָהָר עָשַׁק) * ;] a flood (of sea or river) : Luk.6:48.† (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.

    1. 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.
    2. The flood by way of eminence, the deluge; the great body of water which inundated the earth in the days of Noah.
    3. A river; a sense chiefly poetical.
    4. 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”
    1. A great quantity; an inundation; an overflowing; abundance; superabundance; as a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
    2. A great body or stream of any fluid substance; as a flood of light; a flood of lava.
    3. 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.