Destroy
Bible Usage:
- destroy used 261 times.
- destroyed used 167 times.
- destroyer used 7 times.
- destroyers used 4 times.
- destroyest used 4 times.
- destroyeth used 8 times.
- destroying used 14 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 6:7
- Last Reference: Revelation 11:18
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1104 Used 7 times
- H1641 Used 1 time
- H1792 Used 1 time
- H1820 Used 1 time
- H1949 Used 1 time
- H2000 Used 3 times
- H2040 Used 1 time
- H2254 Used 5 times
- H2255 Used 2 times
- H2763 Used 13 times
- H3238 Used 1 time
- H3423 Used 1 time
- H3772 Used 2 times
- H4049 Used 1 time
- H4135 Used 3 times
- H4191 Used 1 time
- H4229 Used 2 times
- H4272 Used 1 time
- H4480 Used 2 times
- H4889 Used 4 times
- H5255 Used 1 time
- H5362 Used 1 time
- H5395 Used 1 time
- H5422 Used 4 times
- H5595 Used 3 times
- H6 Used 40 times
- H622 Used 1 time
- H6789 Used 4 times
- H7 Used 4 times
- H7665 Used 2 times
- H7703 Used 1 time
- H7722 Used 1 time
- H7843 Used 66 times
- H7921 Used 1 time
- H8045 Used 40 times
- H8074 Used 1 time
- H816 Used 1 time
- G1311 Used 2 times
- G2647 Used 6 times
- G2673 Used 3 times
- G3089 Used 2 times
- G5351 Used 1 time
- G622 Used 19 times
DESTROY, verb transitive [Latin To pile, to build.]
1. To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an edifice, the union of which is necessary to constitute the thing; as, to destroy a house or temple; to destroy a fortification.
2. To ruin; to annihilate a thing by demolishing or by burning; as, to destroy a city.
3. To ruin; to bring to naught; to annihilate; as, to destroy a theory or scheme; to destroy a government; to destroy influence.
4. To lay waste; to make desolate.
Go up against this land, and destroy it. Isaiah 36:10.
5. To kill; to slay; to extirpate; applied to men or other animals.
Ye shall destroy all this people. Numbers 32:15.
All the wicked will he destroy Psalms 145:20.
6. To take away; to cause to cease; to put an end to; as, pain destroys happiness.
That the body of sin might be destroyed. Romans 6:6.
7. To kill; to eat; to devour; to consume. Birds destroy insects. Hawks destroy chickens.
8. In general, to put an end to; to annihilate a thing or the form in which it exists. An army is destroyed by slaughter, capture or dispersion; a forest, by the ax, or by fire; towns, by fire or inundation, etc.
9. In chimistry, to resolve a body into its parts or elements.
DESTROYABLE, adjective That may be destroyed.
Plants scarcely destroyable by the weather.
DESTROYED, participle passive Demolished; pulled down; ruined; annihilated; devoured; swept away; etc.
(Exodus 12:23), the agent employed in the killing of the first-born; the destroying angel or messenger of God. (Comp. 2 Kings 19:35; 2 Samuel 24:15, 16; Psalms 78:49; Acts 12:23.)
DESTROYER, noun One who destroys, or lays waste; one who kills a man, or an animal, or who ruins a country, cities, etc.
DESTROYING, participle present tense Demolishing; laying waste; killing; annihilating; putting an end to.
DESTROYING, noun Destruction.