91 occurrences

'Destruction' in the Bible

And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; But his latter end shall come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstPeople BeginningWise Proverbs

But ships'shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber; And he also shall come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsThe NavyShips For Attacking

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

Verse ConceptsDecayPoisonTeethWasteFamine ComingFamine Will Comehunger

And he said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

Verse ConceptsProphets, Role OfSubstitutionPredestination, Of PersonsAnnihilationEquality Of PunishmentPeople Set Free By People

And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went unto Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

Verse ConceptsLove Between Relatives

And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them that hated them.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

Verse ConceptsFloggingFearlessnessScourgingFreedom From ViolenceThe TongueProtection And SafetyProtection From Danger

At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

Verse ConceptsLaughterFear, Of NaturalWild Beasts SubduedHelp In ShortageFreed From FearOvercoming Adversity

Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Verse ConceptsdrinkingActing For Oneself

Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.

Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceRumoursThe DestroyerThe Fact Of Deathrumors

Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

Verse ConceptsRight Sides

For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

Verse ConceptsHarvestThe DestroyerAdultery

If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

Verse ConceptsRevenge, Examples OfDuties To EnemiesPeople Without Mercy

Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

Verse ConceptsLack Of ExpectationLet Evil Reboundsurprises

But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.

Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeceit Leading to JudgmentHell, As An ExperienceLiesPitsLiarsThe Fate Of The WickedAbasing PeopleHalf Of ThingsPits As A Term For Graves

Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedSlipperyness

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?

Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceGod's Faithfulness

Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Verse ConceptsMortalitySanctity Of LifeCreatures Returning To Dust

For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceDarkness Of Evilvampires

The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Verse ConceptsOrthodoxy, In OtRighteous, TheWay, TheDestruction Of The Wicked

Whoso despiseth the word bringeth destruction on himself; But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

Verse ConceptsReward, HumanReward For WorksDebt

In the multitude of people is the king's glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsFew PeopleKings And PrideSource Of Honour

For their calamity shall rise suddenly; And the destruction from them both, who knoweth it?

Verse ConceptsPunishment Of the WickedThe Insecurity Of The WickedSudden Destruction

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessForsaking GodRejection Of GodRenunciationSinnersConsequences Of Forsaking God

For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfRemnantGod Doing RightDoing RightEnd Of ActionsMany In IsraelSand And Gravel

For yet a very little while, and the indignation against thee'shall be accomplished, and mine anger'shall be directed to his destruction.

Verse ConceptsSpeed Of God's Anger

Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineGod DestroyingThe Fact Of That Day

I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfPoolsThreateningsHedgehogsSweepingdistractions

My heart crieth out for Moab; her nobles flee unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesLamentingRoadsPeoples Who Fled

Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Verse ConceptsSatan as Destroyer

In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesFive ThingsCities Under Attack

Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelSorrowNo Comfort

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsArchaeologyDestruction Of Cities

Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsChainsMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRidicule, Objects OfDestructionTying Upmockers

and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err'shall be in the jaws of the peoples.

Verse ConceptsBridlesdrossHorsesSiftingSievingBinding As AnimalsLike A Flood

These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfKilling Israelites

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Verse ConceptsFeetevil, origins ofInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedInnocent BloodSheddingPaths Of The WickedDestructionThoughts Of The WickedReady To Kill

Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

Verse ConceptsSalvation, Illustrations OfFigurative WallsFreedom From ViolenceGod Saves The NeedyPraise The Lord!Spilling Your Seed On The Groundborders

Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Verse ConceptsSafetyGod DestroyingOut Of The NorthFlags

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.

Verse ConceptsSuddenly

Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.

Verse ConceptsSafetyTrumpetBeaconsOut Of The NorthTrumpets For BattleNatural Disasters

As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthFountainsWellsContinuing In SinFreshWells, Figurative Use

Let them be put to shame that persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Verse ConceptsDouble Penalty

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersRejection Of GodRejection Of God's WordRejecting God's Wordjoking

Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulHeifersOut Of The NorthFlies

The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

Verse ConceptsDestruction

For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfSound

The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

Verse ConceptsCondemnation Of Babylon

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingIntestinesTearsFaintingEyes HarmedTragedy On The StreetsYoung People SufferingI Am Sufferingknots

Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

Verse ConceptsDestructionPitfalls

Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelBereavement, Expression OfTearsI Mourn Catastrophe

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismMotherhoodcookingtenderheartedness

when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread;

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfArrows, Described AsArchers, Likened To GodFamine Coming From God

Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

Verse ConceptsPeace, In The WickedUnrestThe Ungodly SufferingNo Peace

I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing PeopleTroubling Groups Of People

But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the glorious land, and in his hand shall be destruction.

Verse ConceptsThe Will Of Men

Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAttitudes Of RebellionRebellion, Of IsraelSin, Nature OfInfidelity To GodDestruction Of The WickedPeople Going AstrayWoe To Israel And Jerusalem

For, lo, they are gone away from destruction; yet Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.

Verse ConceptsBriersThornsTreasureMemphisAbandoning IdolsBurying places

It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessFruits Of SinNo Helpisrael

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

Verse ConceptsDeath, DefeatedThe DeadGrave, TheHell, As An ExperiencePower, God's SavingRansomRedemption, In OtResurrection, Of BelieversCoping With DeathOvercoming DeathGod Without MercyDeathAbolishing Death

Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDThe AlmightyGod DestroyingThe Fact Of That DayNear The Time Generally

that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

Verse ConceptsCityGod DestroyingDestruction Of Strongholds

But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress.

Verse ConceptsRejoicing In Evil

Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction.

Verse ConceptsDeparturesDestructionGet Up!Unclean ThingsDefilementRestcorruption

Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

Verse ConceptsDissensionContentiousnessDestructionViolence In The EarthFighting One AnotherWhy Does God Do This?Injustice

For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofDestruction Of All CreaturesPursuing ViolenceFear Of Other ThingsReady To Kill

Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby.

Verse ConceptsDestructionGehennaPathways Of SinDamnationMany Seeking SalvationBroadnessNarrow ThingsEasy For PeopleHellGoing To Heavendistractions

to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Verse ConceptsDestructionLordship, Human And DivineCorrecting A BrotherHanding Over ChristThe Fact Of That DayThe Gospel Of SalvationSatanSurrenderThe Devil

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Verse ConceptsDelusionsInstabilityWord Of GodThe Biblical CanonFicklenessDestroying OneselfTwistingNot Understanding SayingsUse Of The ScripturesSpecial RevelationIgnorance of GodHard WorkScriptureWorking Hard And Not Being Lazyuncertaintyignorancepeter

Bible Theasaurus

Consumption (21 instances)
Demolition (1 instance)
Devastation (35 instances)
Dissolution (5 instances)

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
H6
אבד 
'abad 
Usage: 184

H11
אבדּון 
'abaddown 
Usage: 5

H12
אבדן 
'abdan 
Usage: 1

H13
אבדן 
'obdan 
Usage: 1

איד 
'eyd 
Usage: 24

דּכּא 
Dakka' 
Usage: 3

הריסוּת 
Hariycuwth 
Usage: 1

חבל חבל 
Chebel 
Usage: 62

חרבּה 
Chorbah 
Usage: 42

חרם חרם 
Cherem 
Usage: 38

כּיד 
Kiyd 
Usage: 1

מהוּמה 
M@huwmah 
Usage: 12

מחתּה 
M@chittah 
Usage: 11

משׁחית 
Mashchiyth 
Usage: 12

פּיד 
Piyd 
Usage: 3

קטב 
Qeteb 
Usage: 3

קטב 
Qoteb 
Usage: 1

קפדה 
Q@phadah 
Usage: 1

קרץ 
Qerets 
Usage: 1

שׁבר שׁבר 
Sheber 
Usage: 44

שׁברון 
Shibrown 
Usage: 2

שׁוד שׁד 
Shod 
Usage: 25

שׁאה שׁואה שׁוא 
Show' 
Usage: 13

שׁחית 
Sh@chiyth 
Usage: 2

שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 23

שׁמד 
Shamad 
Usage: 90

תּבוּסה 
T@buwcah 
Usage: 1

ἀπώλεια 
Apoleia 
Usage: 18

καθαίρεσις 
Kathairesis 
Usage: 3

ὄλεθρος 
Olethros 
Usage: 4

σύντριμμα 
suntrimma 
Usage: 1

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