Deuteronomy 8:20
As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
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Destroyeth
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Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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אָבַד
ʼâbad · aw-bad'
4 times translated as this KJV form184 total Strong's occurrences
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.
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Strong's first: Deuteronomy 8:20Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 9:18
Open full H6 profile →שָׁחַת
shâchath · shaw-khath'
2 times translated as this KJV form146 total Strong's occurrences
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).
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Strong's first: Proverbs 6:32Strong's last: Proverbs 11:9
Open full H7843 profile →כָּלָה
kâlâh · kaw-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form207 total Strong's occurrences
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.
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Strong's first: Job 9:22Strong's last: Job 9:22
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mâchâh · maw-khaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
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: Proverbs 31:3Strong's last: Proverbs 31:3
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But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
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An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
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Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
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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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