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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Destroyed

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.

167exact KJV occurrences 149Old Testament 18New Testament 36books containing the word 40mapped Strong's IDs 163occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 7:23

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 8:9

And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where destroyed appears.

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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.

HebrewH2763
חָרַם

châram · khaw-ram'

21 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: Exodus 22:20Strong's last: Isaiah 34:2

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HebrewH6
אָבַד

ʼâbad · aw-bad'

17 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: Exodus 10:7Strong's last: Ezekiel 26:17

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HebrewH4229
מָחָה

mâchâh · maw-khaw'

3 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 7:23Strong's last: Judges 21:17

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GreekG2673
καταργέω

katargéō · kat-arg-eh'-o

2 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: Romans 6:6Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 15:26

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GreekG4199
πορθέω

porthéō · por-theh'-o

2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

to ravage (figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: :--destroy, waste.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 9:21Strong's last: Galatians 1:23

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HebrewH2254
חָבַל

châbal · khaw-bal'

2 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: Proverbs 13:13Strong's last: Isaiah 10:27

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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: Judges 4:24Strong's last: 1 Kings 15:13

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HebrewH5595
סָפָה

çâphâh · saw-faw'

2 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: 1 Chronicles 21:12Strong's last: Proverbs 13:23

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GreekG1842
ἐξολοθρεύω

exolothreúō · ex-ol-oth-ryoo'-o

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

to extirpate

Strong's KJV usage: :--destroy.

Strong's first: Acts 3:23Strong's last: Acts 3:23

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GreekG2647
καταλύω

katalýō · kat-al-oo'-o

1 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: Galatians 2:18Strong's last: Galatians 2:18

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GreekG5356
φθορά

phthorá · fthor-ah'

1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences

decay, i.e. ruin (spontaneous or inflicted, literally or figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: :--corruption, destroy, perish.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:12Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:12

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HebrewH1696
דָבַר

dâbar · daw-bar'

1 times translated as this KJV form1,142 total Strong's occurrences

v

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

Strong's KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, × well, × work.

Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 22:10Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 22:10

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AramaicH2718
חֲרַב

chărab · khar-ab'

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

v

to demolish

Strong's KJV usage: destroy.

Strong's first: Ezra 4:15Strong's last: Ezra 4:15

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HebrewH2764
חֵרֶם

chêrem · khay'-rem

1 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

physical (as shutting in) a net (either literally or figuratively); usually a doomed object; abstractly extermination

Strong's KJV usage: (ac-) curse(-d, -d thing), dedicated thing, things which should have been utterly destroyed, (appointed to) utter destruction, devoted (thing), net.

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 15:21Strong's last: 1 Samuel 15:21

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HebrewH3615
כָּלָה

kâlâh · kaw-law'

1 times translated as this KJV form207 total Strong's occurrences

v

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)

Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, × fully, × have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.

Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 31:1Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 31:1

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AramaicH5642
סְתַר

çᵉthar · seth-ar'

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

v

to conceal; figuratively, to demolish

Strong's KJV usage: destroy, secret thing.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Ezra 5:12Strong's last: Ezra 5:12

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HebrewH7321
רוּעַ

rûwaʻ · roo-ah'

1 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences

v

to mar (especially by breaking); figuratively, to split the ears (with sound), i.e. shout (for alarm or joy)

Strong's KJV usage: blow an alarm, cry (alarm, aloud, out), destroy, make a joyful noise, smart, shout (for joy), sound an alarm, triumph.

Strong's first: Proverbs 13:20Strong's last: Proverbs 13:20

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HebrewH8074
שָׁמֵם

shâmêm · shaw-mame'

1 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: 1 Samuel 5:6Strong's last: 1 Samuel 5:6

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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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Deuteronomy 1:44
H3807

And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.

Deuteronomy 2:12
H8045

The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.

Deuteronomy 2:21
H8045

A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

Deuteronomy 2:22
H8045

As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:

Deuteronomy 2:23
H8045

And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)

Deuteronomy 2:34
H2763

And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:

Deuteronomy 3:6
H2763

And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.

Deuteronomy 4:3
H8045

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

Deuteronomy 4:26
H8045

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 7:20
H6

Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 7:23
H8045

But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 7:24
H8045

And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

Deuteronomy 9:8
H8045

Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 9:20
H8045

And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

Deuteronomy 11:4
H6

And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;

Deuteronomy 12:30
H8045

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

Deuteronomy 28:20
H8045

The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

Deuteronomy 28:24
H8045

The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:45
H8045

Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

Deuteronomy 28:48
H8045

Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

Deuteronomy 28:51
H8045

And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

Deuteronomy 28:51
H6

And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

Deuteronomy 28:61
H8045

Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 31:4
H8045

And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

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destroyed

DESTROYED, participle passive Demolished; pulled down; ruined; annihilated; devoured; swept away; etc.

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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