DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Destroying

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14exact KJV occurrences 14Old Testament 0New Testament 8books containing the word 6mapped Strong's IDs 11occurrence-specific Strong's links

FIRST OCCURRENCE

Deuteronomy 3:6

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

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Ezekiel 20:17

Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

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HEAVIEST BOOK

Jeremiah

3 occurrences in 3 verses.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where destroying appears.

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

Deuteronomy 22 verses Joshua 11 verses 2 Kings 11 verses 1 Chronicles 22 verses Isaiah 22 verses Jeremiah 33 verses Lamentations 11 verses Ezekiel 22 verses

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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HebrewH7843

שָׁחַת

shâchath · shaw-khath'

5 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).

Other KJV renderings

destroy 66 destroyed 20 corrupted 11 corrupt 9 mar 4 marred 3 destroyer 2 down 2

Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 21:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 20:17

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HebrewH2763

חָרַם

châram · khaw-ram'

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

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).

Other KJV renderings

destroyed 21 destroy 11 utterly 10 nose 1 devote 1 devoted 1 accursed 1 slay 1

Strong's first: Deuteronomy 3:6Strong's last: Joshua 11:11

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HebrewH1104

בָּלַע

bâlaʻ · baw-lah'

1 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences

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).

Other KJV renderings

up 30 destroy 6 down 3 devoured 2 devoureth 2 swallowed 1 covered 1 Destroy 1

Strong's first: Lamentations 2:8Strong's last: Lamentations 2:8

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HebrewH4889

מַשְׁחִית

mashchîyth · mash-kheeth'

1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

destructive, i.e. (as noun) destruction, literally (specifically a snare) or figuratively (corruption)

Strong's KJV usage: corruption, (to) destroy(-ing), destruction, trap, × utterly.

Other KJV renderings

destroy 4 corruption 2 destruction 2 trap 1 utterly 1

Strong's first: Jeremiah 51:25Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:25

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HebrewH4892

מַשְׁחֵת

mashchêth · mash-khayth'

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

n-m

destruction

Strong's KJV usage: destroying.

Strong's first: Ezekiel 9:1Strong's last: Ezekiel 9:1

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HebrewH6986

קֶטֶב

qeṭeb · keh'-teb

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

n-m

ruin

Strong's KJV usage: destroying, destruction.

Other KJV renderings

destruction 2

Strong's first: Isaiah 28:2Strong's last: Isaiah 28:2

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Joshua 11:11

H2763

And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

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destroying

DESTROYING, participle present tense Demolishing; laying waste; killing; annihilating; putting an end to.

DESTROYING, noun Destruction.

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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