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apṓleia · Greek · Strong's G684 · 18 occurrences

The KJV renders 21 different Hebrew and Greek words as “destruction”

What it means

ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal)

from a presumed derivative of G622 (ἀπόλλυμι);

How the KJV renders it

damnable, destruction, die, perdition, x perish, pernicious ways, waste

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“destruction”

also renders sýntrimma (G4938), ólethros (G3639), kathaíresis (G2506), ʼăbaddôwn (H11), ʼêyd (H343), dakkâʼ (H1793), hărîyçûwth (H2035), chebel (H2256), kîyd (H3589), mᵉhûwmâh (H4103), mᵉchittâh (H4288), qôṭeb (H6987), qᵉphâdâh (H7089), qerets (H7171), sheber (H7667), shibrôwn (H7670), shôwʼ (H7722), shachath (H7845), tᵉbûwçâh (H8395), tablîyth (H8399)

“waste”

also renders diaskorpízō (G1287), porthéō (G4199), bâlâh (H1086), bâthâh (H1326), chârêb (H2720), chôreb (H2721), kirçêm (H3765), shâdad (H7703), shûwd (H7736), shᵉmâmâh (H8077), tôhûw (H8414)

“die”

also renders apothnḗskō (G599), teleutáō (G5053), thnḗskō (G2348), apóllymi (G622), mâveth (H4194), tᵉmûwthâh (H8546)

Answers that weigh this word

Where it appears

18 occurrences in the Greek text, first 17 verses shown.

1 Timothy 6:9 · N-ASF

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

2 Peter 2:1 · N-ASF

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

2 Peter 2:3 · N-NSF

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

2 Peter 3:7 · N-GSF

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

2 Peter 3:16 · N-ASF

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 · N-GSF

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction.

Acts 8:20 N-ASFHebrews 10:39 N-ASFJohn 17:12 N-GSFMatthew 7:13 N-ASFMatthew 26:8 N-NSFMark 14:4 N-NSFPhilippians 1:28 N-GSFPhilippians 3:19 N-NSFRevelation 17:8 N-ASFRevelation 17:11 N-ASFRomans 9:22 N-ASF

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Greek text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.