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

2 Samuel 14:11
H8045

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.

2 Samuel 14:16
H8045

For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

2 Samuel 20:19
H4191

I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

2 Samuel 20:20
H7843

And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

2 Samuel 22:41
H6789

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

2 Samuel 24:16
H7843

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Kings 9:21
H2763

Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

1 Kings 13:34
H8045

And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

1 Kings 16:12
H8045

Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

2 Kings 8:19
H7843

Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.

2 Kings 10:19
H6

Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

2 Kings 13:23
H7843

And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

2 Kings 18:25
H7843

Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

2 Kings 18:25
H7843

Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

2 Kings 24:2
H6

And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.

1 Chronicles 21:15
H7843

And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 12:7
H7843

And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

2 Chronicles 12:12
H7843

And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.

2 Chronicles 20:23
H8045

For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

2 Chronicles 20:23
H4889

For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

2 Chronicles 21:7
H7843

Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.

2 Chronicles 25:16
H7843

And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

2 Chronicles 35:21
H7843

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

Ezra 6:12
H4049

And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.

Ezra 6:12
H2255

And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.

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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