King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G4132
Transliteration: plēmmyra
Phonetic Spelling: (plame-moo'-rah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a flood
Meaning: flood -- a flood
πλήμμυρα (so all editions) (or πλημυρα (cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. § 7 Anm. 17 note; Lob. Rhemat., p. 264)) (better accented as proparoxytone; Chandler § 160), πλημμύρας and (so G T Tr WH) πλημμύρης (see μάχαιρα), ἡ (from πλημμη or πλημη i. e. πλησμη (from πλήθω, πίμπλημι, which see)), a flood, whether of the sea or of a river: Luke 6:48. (Job 40:18; (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 1, 71); Josephus, Antiquities 2, 10, 2; Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus; with ποταμῶν added, Philo de opif. mund. § 19; (cf. de vim Moys. i. § 36; iii, § 24; de Abrah. § 19; de leg. alleg. i. § 13).)
Word Summary
plēmmyra: a flood
Original Word: πλημμύραTransliteration: plēmmyra
Phonetic Spelling: (plame-moo'-rah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a flood
Meaning: flood -- a flood
Strong's Concordance
flood. Prolonged from pletho; flood-tide, i.e. (by analogy) a freshet -- flood.
see GREEK pletho
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4132: πλήμμυραπλήμμυρα (so all editions) (or πλημυρα (cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. § 7 Anm. 17 note; Lob. Rhemat., p. 264)) (better accented as proparoxytone; Chandler § 160), πλημμύρας and (so G T Tr WH) πλημμύρης (see μάχαιρα), ἡ (from πλημμη or πλημη i. e. πλησμη (from πλήθω, πίμπλημι, which see)), a flood, whether of the sea or of a river: Luke 6:48. (Job 40:18; (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 1, 71); Josephus, Antiquities 2, 10, 2; Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus; with ποταμῶν added, Philo de opif. mund. § 19; (cf. de vim Moys. i. § 36; iii, § 24; de Abrah. § 19; de leg. alleg. i. § 13).)