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 thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.
And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?
And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
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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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