to overturn
katastrepho describes the action of overturning tables and seats amid the expulsion of buyers and sellers.
The supplied verses show a single concrete use: overturning the tables of money changers and the seats of dove sellers during the driving out of buyers and sellers from the sacred place.
Senses in use
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Overturning tables and seats · dominant
In Mark 11:15 and Matthew 21:12, the same aorist active indicative form occurs in the action directed at the money changers' tables and the dove sellers' seats. In both verses the APB renders the clause "he overturned the tables" and places the action within the removal of those buying and selling in the sacred place.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across both cited verses, the APB presents the action with "he overturned the tables" and also mentions the seats of those selling doves. This rendering confirms the clause's overall action rather than isolating each English word to the Greek form.