This verb means to overturn or upset physically. Both occurrences describe Jesus cleansing the temple: he 'entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned (κατέστρεψεν) the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons' (Matthew 21:12; Mark 11:15). The action is dramatic and prophetic—Jesus physically disrupting the commercialized worship that had displaced true devotion. The verb captures the forceful reversal, the toppling of what had been established, signaling God's judgment on corrupt religious systems and the inauguration of true worship in the Messiah.