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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Destroy

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

261exact KJV occurrences 228Old Testament 33New Testament 44books containing the word 42mapped Strong's IDs 257occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

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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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 11:18

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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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where destroy appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH6
אָבַד

ʼâbad · aw-bad'

40 times translated as this KJV form184 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH2763
חָרַם

châram · khaw-ram'

11 times translated as this KJV form52 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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GreekG2647
καταλύω

katalýō · kat-al-oo'-o

6 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences

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

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HebrewH2254
חָבַל

châbal · khaw-bal'

5 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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GreekG2673
καταργέω

katargéō · kat-arg-eh'-o

3 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences

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

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HebrewH5595
סָפָה

çâphâh · saw-faw'

3 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH3772
כָּרַת

kârath · kaw-rath'

2 times translated as this KJV form288 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH4229
מָחָה

mâchâh · maw-khaw'

2 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH8074
שָׁמֵם

shâmêm · shaw-mame'

2 times translated as this KJV form93 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH622
אָסַף

ʼâçaph · aw-saf'

1 times translated as this KJV form208 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH3423
יָרַשׁ

yârash · yaw-rash'

1 times translated as this KJV form232 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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AramaicH4049
מְגַר

mᵉgar · meg-ar'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

v

to overthrow

Strong's KJV usage: destroy.

Strong's first: Ezra 6:12Strong's last: Ezra 6:12

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HebrewH4191
מוּת

mûwth · mooth

1 times translated as this KJV form832 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH5362
נָקַף

nâqaph · naw-kaf'

1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH5395
נָשַׁם

nâsham · naw-sham'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to blow away, i.e. destroy

Strong's KJV usage: destroy.

Strong's first: Isaiah 42:14Strong's last: Isaiah 42:14

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HebrewH6979
קוּר

qûwr · koor

1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences

v

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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Numbers 24:17Strong's last: Numbers 24:17

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HebrewH7921
שָׁכֹל

shâkôl · shaw-kole'

1 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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24 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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Jeremiah 1:10
H6

See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

Jeremiah 5:10
H7843

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.

Jeremiah 6:5
H7843

Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Jeremiah 11:19
H7843

But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Jeremiah 12:17
H6

But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 13:14
H7843

And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

Jeremiah 15:3
H7843

And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 15:6
H7843

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

Jeremiah 15:7
H6

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

Jeremiah 17:18
H7665

Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Jeremiah 18:7
H6

At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

Jeremiah 23:1
H6

Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 25:9
H2763

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 31:28
H6

And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 36:29
H7843

And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

Jeremiah 46:8
H6

Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

Jeremiah 48:18
H7843

Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.

Jeremiah 49:9
H7843

If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

Jeremiah 49:38
H6

And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:21
H2763

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

Jeremiah 50:26
no direct Strong's tag

Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

Jeremiah 51:3
no direct Strong's tag

Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

Jeremiah 51:11
H7843

Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

Jeremiah 51:20
H7843

Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

destroy

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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