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by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
Bible Verse Dictionary
2 Peter 3:6 - Perished
2 Peter 3:6 - Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
Verse | Strongs No. | Greek | |
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Whereby | G1223 | διά |
[Preposition] through (in very wide applications local causal or occasional). In composition it retains the same general import |
the | G3588 | ὁ |
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied at others omitted in English idiom) |
world | G2889 | κόσμος |
[Noun Masculine] orderly arrangement that is decoration; by implication the world (in a wide or narrow sense including its inhabitants literally or figuratively [morally]) |
that then | G5119 | τότε |
[Adverb] the when that is at the time that (of the past or future also in consecution) |
was being overflowed | G2626 | κατακλύζω |
[Verb] to dash (wash) down that is (by implication) to deluge |
with water | G5204 | ὕδωρ |
[Noun Neuter] water (as if rainy) literally or figuratively |
perished | G622 | ἀπόλλυμι |
[Verb] to destroy fully (reflexively to perish or lose) literally or figuratively |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.