Go
Articles on

2 Peter 2

2 Peter 2:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

+
6
And
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
turning
tephroo (Greek #5077)
to incinerate, i.e. consume
KJV usage: turn to ashes.
Pronounce: tef-ro'-o
Origin: from τέφρα (ashes)
the cities
polis (Greek #4172)
a town (properly, with walls, of greater or less size)
KJV usage: city.
Pronounce: pol'-is
Origin: probably from the same as 4171, or perhaps from 4183
ofb Sodom
Sodoma (Greek #4670)
Sodoma (i.e. Sedom), a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Sodom.
Pronounce: sod'-om-ah
Origin: plural of Hebrew origin (05467)
and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
Gomorrha
Gomorrha (Greek #1116)
Gomorrha (i.e. Amorah), a place near the Dead Sea
KJV usage: Gomorrha.
Pronounce: gom'-or-hrhah
Origin: of Hebrew origin (06017)
into ashes
tephroo (Greek #5077)
to incinerate, i.e. consume
KJV usage: turn to ashes.
Pronounce: tef-ro'-o
Origin: from τέφρα (ashes)
condemned
katakrino (Greek #2632)
to judge against, i.e. sentence
KJV usage: condemn, damn.
Pronounce: kat-ak-ree'-no
Origin: from 2596 and 2919
them with an overthrow
katastrophe (Greek #2692)
an overturn ("catastrophe"), i.e. demolition; figuratively, apostasy
KJV usage: overthrow, subverting.
Pronounce: kat-as-trof-ay'
Origin: from 2690
, making
tithemi (Greek #5087)
θέω (theh'-o) (which is used only as alternate in certain tenses) to place (in the widest application, literally and figuratively; properly, in a passive or horizontal posture, and thus different from 2476, which properly denotes an upright and active position, while 2749 is properly reflexive and utterly prostrate)
KJV usage: + advise, appoint, bow, commit, conceive, give, X kneel down, lay (aside, down, up), make, ordain, purpose, put, set (forth), settle, sink down.
Pronounce: tith'-ay-mee
c them an ensample
hupodeigma (Greek #5262)
an exhibit for imitation or warning (figuratively, specimen, adumbration)
KJV usage: en-(ex-)ample, pattern.
Pronounce: hoop-od'-igue-mah
Origin: from 5263
unto those that after should
mello (Greek #3195)
to intend, i.e. be about to be, do, or suffer something (of persons or things, especially events; in the sense of purpose, duty, necessity, probability, possibility, or hesitation)
KJV usage: about, after that, be (almost), (that which is, things, + which was for) to come, intend, was to (be), mean, mind, be at the point, (be) ready, + return, shall (begin), (which, that) should (after, afterwards, hereafter) tarry, which was for, will, would, be yet.
Pronounce: mel'-lo
Origin: a strengthened form of 3199 (through the idea of expectation)
live ungodly
asebeo (Greek #764)
to be (by implied act) impious or wicked
KJV usage: commit (live, that after should live) ungodly.
Pronounce: as-eb-eh'-o
Origin: from 765
;
b
Gen. 19:24‑25•  (Gen. 19:24‑25)
c
Deut. 29:23•  (Deut. 29:23)

More on:

+
Ashes,
Ensample,
Sodom; Sodoma

Cross References

+

Ministry on This Verse

+
turning.
Gen. 19:24‑25,28•  (Gen. 19:24‑25,28)
;
Deut. 29:23•  (Deut. 29:23)
;
Isa. 13:19•  (Isa. 13:19)
;
Jer. 50:40•  (Jer. 50:40)
;
Ezek. 16:49‑56•  (Ezek. 16:49‑56)
;
Hos. 11:8•  (Hos. 11:8)
;
Amos 4:11•  (Amos 4:11)
;
Zeph. 2:9•  (Zeph. 2:9)
;
Luke 17:28‑30• 28And in like manner as took place in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
 29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed all [of them]:
 30after this [manner] shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:28‑30)
;
Jude 7• 7as Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities around them, having in the like manner with them greedily committed fornication and gone after strange flesh, lie there an example, undergoing judgment of eternal fire. (Jude 7)
making.
Num. 26:10•  (Num. 26:10)
;
Deut. 29:23•  (Deut. 29:23)
;
1 Cor. 10:11• 11Now all these things happened unto them typically, and were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have reached. (1 Cor. 10:11)
• men sunk into unblushing vileness not to be named, save in the days long after by the classic authors of Greece and Rome, who liked moral filth without shame. Most righteously did Jehovah execute His judgment on these cities, setting an example to those that should live an ungodly life, not providentially through the hand of man, but Himself raining upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire out of heaven. (“2 Peter 2:6-8” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

+
6
and having reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, setting them as an example to those that should afterwards live an ungodly life;

W. Kelly Translation

+
6
and reducing to ashes [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, he condemned [them] with overthrow, having set an example to those that should live ungodlily,