Original Word: πλημμύρα, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: plémmura
Phonetic Spelling: (plame-moo'-rah)
Short Definition: a flood
Definition: a flood.STRONGS NT 4132: πλήμμυρα

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).)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

flood.

Prolonged from pletho; flood-tide, i.e. (by analogy) a freshet -- flood.

see GREEK pletho

Forms and Transliterations

πλημμύρα πλημμύρας πλημμυρης πλημμύρης plemmures plēmmurēs plemmyres plemmýres plēmmyrēs plēmmýrēs

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