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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)

Questions this word decides

Where it appears

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

1 Timothy 6:9 N-ASF2 Peter 2:1 N-ASF2 Peter 2:3 N-NSF2 Peter 3:7 N-GSF2 Peter 3:16 N-ASF2 Thessalonians 2:3 N-GSFActs 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.