Ezekiel 21:15
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
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Acts 15:16
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
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κατασκάπτω
kataskáptō · kat-as-kap'-to
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to undermine, i.e. (by implication) destroy
Strong's KJV usage: :--dig down, ruin.
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Strong's first: Acts 15:16Strong's last: Acts 15:16
Open full G2679 profile →הֲרִיסָה
hărîyçâh · har-ee-saw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
something demolished
Strong's KJV usage: ruin.
Strong's first: Amos 9:11Strong's last: Amos 9:11
Open full H2034 profile →מִכְשׁוֹל
mikshôwl · mik-shole'
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
a stumbling-block, literally or figuratively (obstacle, enticement (specifically an idol), scruple)
Strong's KJV usage: caused to fall, offence, × (no-) thing offered, ruin, stumbling-block.
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Strong's first: Ezekiel 21:15Strong's last: Ezekiel 21:15
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I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
H2034
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
G2679
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
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ruin
RU'IN, noun [Latin ruo, to fall, to rush down.]
1. Destruction; fall; overthrow; defeat; that change of any thing which destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; as the ruin of a house; the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution of government; the ruin of health; the ruin of commerce; the ruin of public or private happiness; the ruin of a project.
2. Mischief; bane; that which destroys.
The errors of young men are the ruin of business.
3. ruin more generally ruins, the remains of a decayed or demolished city, house, fortress, or any work of art or other thing; as the ruins of Balbec, Palmyra or Persepolis; the ruins of a wall; a castle in ruins.
The labor of a day will not build up a virtuous habit on the ruins of an old and vicious character.
4. The decayed or enfeebled remains of a natural object; as, the venerable old man presents a great mind in ruins.
5. The cause of destruction.
They were the ruin of him and of all Israel. 2 Chronicles 28:23.
RU'IN, v, t,
1. To demolish; to pull down, burn, or otherwise destroy; as, to ruin a city or an edifice.
2. To subvert; to destroy; as, to ruin a state or government.
3. To destroy; to bring to an end; as, to ruin commerce or manufactures.
4. To destroy in any manner; as, to ruin health or happiness; to ruin reputation.
5. To counteract; to defeat; as, to ruin a plan or project.
6. To deprive of felicity or fortune.
By thee rais'd I ruin all my foes.
Grace with a nod, and ruin with a frown.
7. To impoverish; as, to be ruined by speculation.
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us.
8. To bring to everlasting misery; as, to ruin the soul.
RU'IN, verb intransitive
1. To fall into ruins.
2. To run to ruin; to fall into decay or be dilapidated.
Though he his house of polish'd marble build, yet shall it ruin like the moth's frail cell.
3. To be reduced; to be brought to poverty or misery.
If we are idle, and disturb the industrious in their business, we shall ruin the faster.
[Note. This intransitive use of the verb is now unusual.]
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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