Genesis 6:7
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
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And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Read in context →And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
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shâchath · shaw-khath'
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, × utterly, waste(-r).
Strong's first: Genesis 6:13Strong's last: Malachi 3:11
Open full H7843 profile →ʼâbad · aw-bad'
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Strong's KJV usage: break, destroy(-uction), not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, × and surely, take, be undone, × utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Strong's first: Leviticus 23:30Strong's last: Zephaniah 2:13
Open full H6 profile →shâmad · shaw-mad'
to desolate
Strong's KJV usage: destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, × utterly.
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:30Strong's last: Zechariah 12:9
Open full H8045 profile →apóllymi · ap-ol'-loo-mee
to destroy fully (reflexively, to perish, or lose), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: :--destroy, die, lose, mar, perish.
Strong's first: Matthew 2:13Strong's last: James 4:12
Open full G622 profile →châram · khaw-ram'
to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose
Strong's KJV usage: make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).
Strong's first: Numbers 21:2Strong's last: Jeremiah 50:21
Open full H2763 profile →bâlaʻ · baw-lah'
to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy
Strong's KJV usage: cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).
Strong's first: Job 2:3Strong's last: Isaiah 25:7
Open full H1104 profile →katalýō · kat-al-oo'-o
to loosen down (disintegrate), i.e. (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specially (compare G2646) to halt for the night
Strong's KJV usage: :--destroy, dissolve, be guest, lodge, come to nought, overthrow, throw down.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:17Strong's last: Romans 14:20
Open full G2647 profile →châbal · khaw-bal'
to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition)
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lay to (take a) pledge, spoil, travail, × very, withhold.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 5:6Strong's last: Micah 2:10
Open full H2254 profile →ʼăbad · ab-ad'
Strong's KJV usage: destroy, perish.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:12Strong's last: Daniel 7:26
Open full H7 profile →mashchîyth · mash-kheeth'
destructive, i.e. (as noun) destruction, literally (specifically a snare) or figuratively (corruption)
Strong's KJV usage: corruption, (to) destroy(-ing), destruction, trap, × utterly.
Strong's first: Exodus 12:13Strong's last: Ezekiel 25:15
Open full H4889 profile →nâthats · naw-thats'
to tear down
Strong's KJV usage: beat down, break down (out), cast down, destroy, overthrow, pull down, throw down.
Strong's first: Exodus 34:13Strong's last: Ezekiel 26:12
Open full H5422 profile →tsâmath · tsaw-math'
to extirpate (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: consume, cut off, destroy, vanish.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 22:41Strong's last: Psalms 101:8
Open full H6789 profile →katargéō · kat-arg-eh'-o
to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: :--abolish, cease, cumber, deliver, destroy, do away, become (make) of no (none, without) effect, fail, loose, bring (come) to nought, put away (down), vanish away, make void.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 6:13Strong's last: Hebrews 2:14
Open full G2673 profile →hâmam · haw-mam'
properly, to put in commotion; by implication, to disturb, drive, destroy
Strong's KJV usage: break, consume, crush, destroy, discomfit, trouble, vex.
Strong's first: Exodus 23:27Strong's last: Psalms 144:6
Open full H2000 profile →mûwl · mool
to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy
Strong's KJV usage: circumcise(-ing), selves), cut down (in pieces), destroy, × must needs.
Strong's first: Psalms 118:10Strong's last: Psalms 118:12
Open full H4135 profile →çâphâh · saw-faw'
properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e. to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e. to scatter, remove, or ruin; intransitively, to perish)
Strong's KJV usage: add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put.
Strong's first: Genesis 18:23Strong's last: Psalms 40:14
Open full H5595 profile →diaphtheírō · dee-af-thi'-ro
to rot thoroughly, i.e. (by implication) to ruin (passively, decay utterly, figuratively, pervert)
Strong's KJV usage: :--corrupt, destroy, perish.
Strong's first: Revelation 11:18Strong's last: Revelation 11:18
Open full G1311 profile →lýō · loo'-o
to "loosen" (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--break (up), destroy, dissolve, (un-)loose, melt, put off.
Strong's first: John 2:19Strong's last: 1 John 3:8
Open full G3089 profile →chăbal · khab-al'
to ruin
Strong's KJV usage: destroy, hurt.
Strong's first: Ezra 6:12Strong's last: Daniel 4:23
Open full H2255 profile →kârath · kaw-rath'
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
Strong's KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), × lose, perish, × utterly, × want.
Strong's first: Exodus 8:9Strong's last: Leviticus 26:22
Open full H3772 profile →mâchâh · maw-khaw'
properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to
Strong's KJV usage: abolish, blot out, destroy, full of marrow, put out, reach unto, × utterly, wipe (away, out).
Strong's first: Genesis 6:7Strong's last: Genesis 7:4
Open full H4229 profile →shâbar · shaw-bar'
to burst (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken (-hearted), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, × quite, tear, view (by mistake for 7663).
Strong's first: Jeremiah 17:18Strong's last: Daniel 11:26
Open full H7665 profile →shâmêm · shaw-mame'
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Strong's KJV usage: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 7:16Strong's last: Hosea 2:12
Open full H8074 profile →phtheírō · fthi'-ro
properly, to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) or (generally) to ruin (especially figuratively, by moral influences, to deprave)
Strong's KJV usage: :--corrupt (self), defile, destroy.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 3:17Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 3:17
Open full G5351 profile →ʼâçaph · aw-saf'
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), × generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, × surely, take (away, into, up), × utterly, withdraw.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 15:6Strong's last: 1 Samuel 15:6
Open full H622 profile →ʼâsham · aw-sham'
to be guilty; by implication to be punished or perish
Strong's KJV usage: × certainly, be(-come, made) desolate, destroy, × greatly, be(-come, found, hold) guilty, offend (acknowledge offence), trespass.
Strong's first: Psalms 5:10Strong's last: Psalms 5:10
Open full H816 profile →gârar · gaw-rar'
to drag off roughly; by implication, to bring up the cud (i.e. ruminate); by analogy, to saw
Strong's KJV usage: catch, chew, × continuing, destroy, saw.
Strong's first: Proverbs 21:7Strong's last: Proverbs 21:7
Open full H1641 profile →dâkâʼ · daw-kaw'
to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.
Strong's first: Job 6:9Strong's last: Job 6:9
Open full H1792 profile →dâmâh · daw-mam'
to be dumb or silent; hence, to fail or perish; trans. to destroy
Strong's KJV usage: cease, be cut down (off), destroy, be brought to silence, be undone, × utterly.
Strong's first: Hosea 4:5Strong's last: Hosea 4:5
Open full H1820 profile →hûwm · hoom
to make an uproar, or agitate greatly
Strong's KJV usage: destroy, move, make a noise, put, ring again.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 7:23Strong's last: Deuteronomy 7:23
Open full H1949 profile →hâraç · haw-ras'
to pull down or in pieces, break, destroy
Strong's KJV usage: beat down, break (down, through), destroy, overthrow, pluck down, pull down, ruin, throw down, × utterly.
Strong's first: Psalms 28:5Strong's last: Psalms 28:5
Open full H2040 profile →yânâh · yaw-naw'
to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat
Strong's KJV usage: destroy, (thrust out by) oppress(-ing, -ion, -or), proud, vex, do violence.
Strong's first: Psalms 74:8Strong's last: Psalms 74:8
Open full H3238 profile →yârash · yaw-rash'
to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin
Strong's KJV usage: cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel, × without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, × utterly.
Strong's first: Exodus 15:9Strong's last: Exodus 15:9
Open full H3423 profile →mᵉgar · meg-ar'
to overthrow
Strong's KJV usage: destroy.
Strong's first: Ezra 6:12Strong's last: Ezra 6:12
Open full H4049 profile →mûwth · mooth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, × crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), × must needs, slay, × surely, × very suddenly, × in (no) wise.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 20:19Strong's last: 2 Samuel 20:19
Open full H4191 profile →nâçach · naw-sakh'
to tear away
Strong's KJV usage: destroy, pluck, root.
Strong's first: Proverbs 15:25Strong's last: Proverbs 15:25
Open full H5255 profile →nâqaph · naw-kaf'
to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate
Strong's KJV usage: compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round.
Strong's first: Job 19:26Strong's last: Job 19:26
Open full H5362 profile →nâsham · naw-sham'
properly, to blow away, i.e. destroy
Strong's KJV usage: destroy.
Strong's first: Isaiah 42:14Strong's last: Isaiah 42:14
Open full H5395 profile →qûwr · koor
to trench; by implication, to throw forth; to wall up, whether literal (to build a wall) or figurative (to estop)
Strong's KJV usage: break down, cast out, destroy, dig.
Strong's first: Numbers 24:17Strong's last: Numbers 24:17
Open full H6979 profile →shâdad · shaw-dad'
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
Strong's KJV usage: dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), × utterly, (lay) waste.
Strong's first: Proverbs 11:3Strong's last: Proverbs 11:3
Open full H7703 profile →shôwʼ · sho
a tempest; by implication, devastation
Strong's KJV usage: desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.
Strong's first: Psalms 63:9Strong's last: Psalms 63:9
Open full H7722 profile →shâkôl · shaw-kole'
properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, × expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 32:25Strong's last: Deuteronomy 32:25
Open full H7921 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
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DESTROY, verb transitive [Latin To pile, to build.]
1. To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an edifice, the union of which is necessary to constitute the thing; as, to destroy a house or temple; to destroy a fortification.
2. To ruin; to annihilate a thing by demolishing or by burning; as, to destroy a city.
3. To ruin; to bring to naught; to annihilate; as, to destroy a theory or scheme; to destroy a government; to destroy influence.
4. To lay waste; to make desolate.
Go up against this land, and destroy it. Isaiah 36:10.
5. To kill; to slay; to extirpate; applied to men or other animals.
Ye shall destroy all this people. Numbers 32:15.
All the wicked will he destroy Psalms 145:20.
6. To take away; to cause to cease; to put an end to; as, pain destroys happiness.
That the body of sin might be destroyed. Romans 6:6.
7. To kill; to eat; to devour; to consume. Birds destroy insects. Hawks destroy chickens.
8. In general, to put an end to; to annihilate a thing or the form in which it exists. An army is destroyed by slaughter, capture or dispersion; a forest, by the ax, or by fire; towns, by fire or inundation, etc.
9. In chimistry, to resolve a body into its parts or elements.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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