Deuteronomy 7:23
But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
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Destruction
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2 Peter 3:16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
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Deuteronomy
22 verses
1 Samuel
22 verses
1 Kings
11 verses
2 Chronicles
33 verses
Esther
22 verses
Job
1414 verses
Psalms
87 verses
Proverbs
1515 verses
Isaiah
1111 verses
Jeremiah
109 verses
Lamentations
44 verses
Ezekiel
33 verses
Hosea
33 verses
Joel
11 verses
Obadiah
11 verses
Micah
11 verses
Zechariah
11 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Romans
22 verses
1 Corinthians
11 verses
2 Corinthians
22 verses
Philippians
11 verses
1 Thessalonians
11 verses
2 Thessalonians
11 verses
1 Timothy
11 verses
2 Peter
22 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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שֶׁבֶר
sheber · sheh'-ber
21 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream)
Strong's KJV usage: affliction, breach, breaking, broken(-footed, -handed), bruise, crashing, destruction, hurt, interpretation, vexation.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 16:18Strong's last: Ezekiel 32:9
Open full H7667 profile →אֵיד
ʼêyd · ade
7 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
oppression; by implication misfortune, ruin
Strong's KJV usage: calamity, destruction.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 18:12Strong's last: Proverbs 1:27
Open full H343 profile →מְחִתָּה
mᵉchittâh · mekh-it-taw'
7 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a dissolution; concretely, a ruin, or (abstractly) consternation
Strong's KJV usage: destruction, dismaying, ruin, terror.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 10:14Strong's last: Proverbs 21:15
Open full H4288 profile →שֹׁד
shôd · shode
7 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
violence, ravage
Strong's KJV usage: desolation, destruction, oppression, robbery, spoil(-ed, -er, -ing), wasting.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 5:21Strong's last: Joel 1:15
Open full H7701 profile →אֲבַדּוֹן
ʼăbaddôwn · ab-ad-done'
6 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
abstract, a perishing; concrete, Hades
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: Job 26:6Strong's last: Proverbs 27:20
Open full H11 profile →ἀπώλεια
apṓleia · ap-o'-li-a
5 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal)
Strong's KJV usage: :--damnable(-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 7:13Strong's last: 2 Peter 3:16
Open full G684 profile →ὄλεθρος
ólethros · ol'-eth-ros
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
ruin, i.e. death, punishment
Strong's KJV usage: :--destruction.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 5:5Strong's last: 1 Timothy 6:9
Open full G3639 profile →מְהוּמָה
mᵉhûwmâh · meh-hoo-maw'
3 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
confusion or uproar
Strong's KJV usage: destruction, discomfiture, trouble, tumult, vexation, vexed.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 7:23Strong's last: 1 Samuel 5:11
Open full H4103 profile →καθαίρεσις
kathaíresis · kath-ah'-ee-res-is
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
demolition; figuratively, extinction
Strong's KJV usage: :--destruction, pulling down.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 10:8Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 13:10
Open full G2506 profile →חֵרֶם
chêrem · khay'-rem
2 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 20:42Strong's last: Zechariah 14:11
Open full H2764 profile →מַשְׁחִית
mashchîyth · mash-kheeth'
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
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
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 22:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 5:16
Open full H4889 profile →פִּיד
pîyd · peed
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
(figuratively) misfortune
Strong's KJV usage: destruction, ruin.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 30:24Strong's last: Job 31:29
Open full H6365 profile →קֶטֶב
qeṭeb · keh'-teb
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
ruin
Strong's KJV usage: destroying, destruction.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 32:24Strong's last: Psalms 91:6
Open full H6986 profile →שׁוֹא
shôwʼ · sho
2 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
a tempest; by implication, devastation
Strong's KJV usage: desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 35:8Strong's last: Psalms 35:8
Open full H7722 profile →שַׁחַת
shachath · shakh'-ath
2 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction
Strong's KJV usage: corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 55:23Strong's last: Psalms 103:4
Open full H7845 profile →σύντριμμα
sýntrimma · soon-trim'-mah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
concussion or utter fracture (properly, concretely), i.e. complete ruin
Strong's KJV usage: :--destruction.
Strong's first: Romans 3:16Strong's last: Romans 3:16
Open full G4938 profile →אָבַד
ʼâbad · aw-bad'
1 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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Obadiah 1:12Strong's last: Obadiah 1:12
Open full H6 profile →אַבְדָן
ʼabdân · ab-dawn'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a perishing
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: Esther 9:5Strong's last: Esther 9:5
Open full H12 profile →אׇבְדַן
ʼobdan · ob-dawn'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a perishing
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: Esther 8:6Strong's last: Esther 8:6
Open full H13 profile →דַּכָּא
dakkâʼ · dak-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
crushed (literally powder, or figuratively, contrite)
Strong's KJV usage: contrite, destruction.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 90:3Strong's last: Psalms 90:3
Open full H1793 profile →הֲרִיסוּת
hărîyçûwth · har-ee-sooth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
demolition
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: Isaiah 49:19Strong's last: Isaiah 49:19
Open full H2035 profile →הֶרֶס
hereç · heh'-res
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
demolition
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: Isaiah 19:18Strong's last: Isaiah 19:18
Open full H2041 profile →חֶבֶל
chebel · kheh'-bel
1 times translated as this KJV form60 total Strong's occurrences
a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
Strong's KJV usage: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
Strong's first: Micah 2:10Strong's last: Micah 2:10
Open full H2256 profile →חֲלוֹף
chălôwph · khal-ofe'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
properly, surviving; by implication (collectively) orphans
Strong's KJV usage: × destruction.
Strong's first: Proverbs 31:8Strong's last: Proverbs 31:8
Open full H2475 profile →כִּיד
kîyd · keed
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a crushing; figuratively, calamity
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: Job 21:20Strong's last: Job 21:20
Open full H3589 profile →מַשּׁוּאָה
mashshûwʼâh · mash-shoo-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
ruin
Strong's KJV usage: desolation, destruction.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 73:18Strong's last: Psalms 73:18
Open full H4876 profile →קֹטֶב
qôṭeb · ko'-teb
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
extermination
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: Hosea 13:14Strong's last: Hosea 13:14
Open full H6987 profile →קְפָדָה
qᵉphâdâh · kef-aw-daw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
shrinking, i.e., terror
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 7:25Strong's last: Ezekiel 7:25
Open full H7089 profile →קֶרֶץ
qerets · keh'-rets
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
extirpation (as if by constriction)
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 46:20Strong's last: Jeremiah 46:20
Open full H7171 profile →שְׁאִיָּה
shᵉʼîyâh · sheh-ee-yaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
desolation
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: Isaiah 24:12Strong's last: Isaiah 24:12
Open full H7591 profile →שִׁבְרוֹן
shibrôwn · shib-rone'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
rupture, i.e. a pang; figuratively, ruin
Strong's KJV usage: breaking, destruction.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 17:18Strong's last: Jeremiah 17:18
Open full H7670 profile →שָׁחַת
shâchath · shaw-khath'
1 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
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 26:16Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 26:16
Open full H7843 profile →שָׁמַד
shâmad · shaw-mad'
1 times translated as this KJV form90 total Strong's occurrences
to desolate
Strong's KJV usage: destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, × utterly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 14:23Strong's last: Isaiah 14:23
Open full H8045 profile →תְּבוּסָה
tᵉbûwçâh · teb-oo-saw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a treading down, i.e. ruin
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 22:7Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 22:7
Open full H8395 profile →תַּבְלִית
tablîyth · tab-leeth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
consumption
Strong's KJV usage: destruction.
Strong's first: Isaiah 10:25Strong's last: Isaiah 10:25
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H7701
Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
H7701
For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
H6987
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
H7701
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
H6
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
H2256
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
H2764
And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
G684
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
G4938
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
G684
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
G3639
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
G2506
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
G2506
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
G684
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
G3639
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
G3639
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
G3639
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
G684
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
G684
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
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destruction
DESTRUCTION, noun
1. The act of destroying; demolition; a pulling down; subversion; ruin, by whatever means; as the destruction of buildings, or of towns. destruction consists in the annihilation of the form of any theing; that form of parts which constitues it what it is; as the destruction of grass or herbage by eating; of a forest, by cutting down the trees; or it denotes a total annihilation; as the destruction of a particular government; the destruction of happiness.
2. Death; murder; slaughter; massacre.
There was a deadly destruction throughout all the city. 1 Samuel 5:9.
3. Ruin.
DESTRUCTION and misery are in their ways. Romans 3:16.
4. Eternal death.
Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction Matthew 7:13.
5. Cause of destruction; a consuming plague; a destroyer.
The destruction that wasteth at noon-day. Psalms 91:6.
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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