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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Perish

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.

120exact KJV occurrences 90Old Testament 30New Testament 33books containing the word 18mapped Strong's IDs 120occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 41:36

And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where perish appears.

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

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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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.

HebrewH6
אָבַד

ʼâbad · aw-bad'

75 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: Leviticus 26:38Strong's last: Zechariah 9:5

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HebrewH8
אֹבֵד

ʼôbêd · o-bade'

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

n-m

(concrete) wretched or (abstract) destruction

Strong's KJV usage: perish.

Strong's first: Numbers 24:20Strong's last: Numbers 24:24

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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 Samuel 26:10Strong's last: 1 Samuel 27:1

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GreekG853
ἀφανίζω

aphanízō · af-an-id'-zo

1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences

to render unapparent, i.e. (actively) consume (becloud), or (passively) disappear (be destroyed)

Strong's KJV usage: :-- corrupt, disfigure, perish, vanish away.

Strong's first: Acts 13:41Strong's last: Acts 13:41

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GreekG2704
καταφθείρω

kataphtheírō · kat-af-thi'-ro

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

to spoil entirely, i.e. (literally) to destroy; or (figuratively) to deprave;

Strong's KJV usage: --corrupt, utterly perish.

Other KJV renderings

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

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HebrewH3772
כָּרַת

kârath · kaw-rath'

1 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: Genesis 41:36Strong's last: Genesis 41:36

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HebrewH5307
נָפַל

nâphal · naw-fal'

1 times translated as this KJV form435 total Strong's occurrences

v

to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)

Strong's KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (× hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, × surely, throw down.

Strong's first: Exodus 19:21Strong's last: Exodus 19:21

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HebrewH5674
עָבַר

ʻâbar · aw-bar'

1 times translated as this KJV form562 total Strong's occurrences

v

to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)

Strong's KJV usage: alienate, alter, × at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-) come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, shave, cause to (make) sound, × speedily, × sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-) faring man, be wrath.

Strong's first: Job 36:12Strong's last: Job 36:12

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HebrewH7843
שָׁחַת

shâchath · shaw-khath'

1 times translated as this KJV form146 total Strong's occurrences

v

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).

Strong's first: Exodus 21:26Strong's last: Exodus 21:26

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Jeremiah 4:9
H6

And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

Jeremiah 6:21
H6

Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

Jeremiah 10:11
H7

Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

Jeremiah 10:15
H6

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Jeremiah 18:18
H6

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Jeremiah 27:10
H6

For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

Jeremiah 27:15
H6

For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

Jeremiah 40:15
H6

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?

Jeremiah 48:8
H6

And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.

Jeremiah 51:18
H6

They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

perish

PER'ISH, verb intransitive [Latin pereo, supposed to be compounded of per and eo, to go; literally, to depart wholly.]

1. To die; to lose life in any manner; applied to animals. Men perish by disease or decay, by the sword, by drowning, by hunger or famine, etc.

2. To die; to wither and decay; applied to plants.

3. To waste away; as, a leg or an arm has perished.

4. To be in a state of decay or passing away.

Duration, and time which is part of it, is the idea we have of perishing distance.

5. To be destroyed; to come to nothing.

Perish the lore that deadens young desire.

6. To fail entirely or to be extirpated. 2 Kings 9:8.

7. To be burst or ruined; as, the bottles shall perish

Luke 5:37.

8. To be wasted or rendered useless. Jeremiah 9:12.

9. To be injured or tormented. 1 Corinthians 8:11.

10. To be lost eternally; to be sentenced to endless misery. 2 Peter 2:12.

PER'ISH, verb transitive To destroy. [Not legitimate.]

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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