Judges 18:25
And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.
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Lose
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2 John 1:8
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
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7 occurrences in 5 verses.
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ἀπόλλυμι
apóllymi · ap-ol'-loo-mee
17 times translated as this KJV form103 total Strong's occurrences
to destroy fully (reflexively, to perish, or lose), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: :--destroy, die, lose, mar, perish.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 10:39Strong's last: 2 John 1:8
Open full G622 profile →ζημιόω
zēmióō · dzay-mee-o'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to injure, i.e. (reflexively or passively) to experience detriment
Strong's KJV usage: :--be cast away, receive damage, lose, suffer loss.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 16:26Strong's last: Mark 8:36
Open full G2210 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: Ecclesiastes 3:6Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 3:6
Open full H6 profile →אָסַף
ʼâçaph · aw-saf'
1 times translated as this KJV form208 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 18:25Strong's last: Judges 18:25
Open full H622 profile →כָּרַת
kârath · kaw-rath'
1 times translated as this KJV form288 total Strong's occurrences
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: 1 Kings 18:5Strong's last: 1 Kings 18:5
Open full H3772 profile →נָפַח
nâphach · naw-fakh'
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire; figuratively, to disesteem)
Strong's KJV usage: blow, breath, give up, cause to lose (life), seething, snuff.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 31:39Strong's last: Job 31:39
Open full H5301 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: Proverbs 23:8Strong's last: Proverbs 23:8
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G622
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
G622
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
G2210
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
G622
For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
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lose
LOSE, verb transitive looz. preterit tense and participle passive lost.
1. To mislay; to part or be separated from a thing, so as to have no knowledge of the place where it is; as, to lose a book or a paper; to lose a record; to lose a dollar or a ducat.
2. To forfeit by unsuccessful contest; as, to lose money in gaming.
3. Not to gain or win; as, to lose a battle, that is, to be defeated.
4. To be deprived of; as, to lose men in battle; to lose an arm or leg by a shot or by amputation; to lose one's life or honor.
5. To forfeit, as a penalty. Our first parents lost the favor of God by their apostasy.
6. To suffer diminution or waste of.
If the salt hath lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? Matthew 5:1.
7. To ruin; to destroy.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
8. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; as, to lose the way.
9. To bewilder.
Lost in the maze of words.
10. To possess no longer; to be deprived of; contrary to keep; as, to lose a valuable trade.
11. Not to employ or enjoy; to waste. Titus sighed to lose a day.
Th' unhappy have but hours, but these they lose
12. To waste; to squander; to throw away; as, to lose a fortune by gaming, or by dissipation.
13. To suffer to vanish from view or perception. We lost sight of the land at noon. I lost my companion in the crowd.
Like following life in creatures we dissect, we lost it in the moment we detect.
14. To ruin; to destroy by shipwreck, etc. the albion was lost on the coast of Ireland, april 22, 1822. the admiral lost three ships in a tempest.
15. To cause to perish; as, to be lost at sea.
16. to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste. Instruction is often lost on the dull; admonition is lost on the profligate. It is often the fate of projectors to lose their labor.
17. to be freed from.
His scaly back the bunch has got which Edwin lost before.
18. to fail to obtain.
He shall in no wise lose his reward. Matthew 5:1.
to lose one's self, to be bewildered; also, to slumber; to have the memory and reason suspended.
LOSE, verb intransitive looz.
1. To forfeit any thing in contest; not to win.
We'll talk with them too, who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out.
2. To decline; to fail.
Wisdom in discourse with her loses discountenanced, and like folly shows.
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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