Words the Bible translates as destruction
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 25 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- apōleiaἀπώλειαruin, destruction, loss: the wrecking or wasting of something, and in most of the New Testament the final doom of the ungodly
- sheverשֶׁבֶרa breaking: the shattering of something whole, from a snapped bone to the collapse of a whole nation
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- the interpretation of a dream: the unlocking of what a dream means
- erēmōsisἐρήμωσιςthe laying waste of a place, and the ruined emptiness that laying it waste leaves behind
- beliyya'alבְּלִיַּעַלdestruction: deadly ruin, pictured in poetry as a flood that engulfs a person and drags them toward death
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- ruinous worthlessness: the good-for-nothing quality that makes a person or a plan both useless and destructive
- shodשֹׁדforcible devastation: the ruin of violent plundering, whether the destroying act or the havoc it leaves behind
- edאֵידdisaster: a sudden, crushing catastrophe that overtakes a person or a nation, often the appointed day of their downfall
- shaḥatשַׁחַתa pit: a deep hole dug in the ground, and by extension the grave, or the ruin that swallows the dying
- phthoraφθοράdecay: the breaking down and wearing out that makes physical things spoil, wither, and die
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- ruin: being destroyed and finished off
- moral rot: the spoiling of a person from the inside that spreads through runaway desire and takes them captive
- havvahהַוָּהdestruction: engulfing ruin, whether a disaster that swallows a victim or the deadly harm people scheme against one another
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- greedy craving: a grasping, self-serving desire, almost always the wicked's
- sho'ahשׁוֹאָהsudden, sweeping ruin: catastrophe that overwhelms a person or a place without warning, and the emptied waste it leaves behind.
- mashḥitמַשְׁחִיתdeliberate wrecking: the ruin one party brings down on another, and the destroying power that brings it
- meḥittahמְחִתָּהruin: the shattering collapse that overtakes a person, a people, or a place, or the dread of one
- rhēgmaῥῆγμαdestructionnot studied yet
- kathairesisκαθαίρεσιςdestructionnot studied yet
- avaddonאֲבַדּוֹןthe place of destruction: the deepest, annihilating depth of the realm of the dead
- qetevקֶטֶבdestructionnot studied yet
- ovedאֹבֵדdestructionnot studied yet
- avaddonאֲבַדּוֹןdestructionnot studied yet
- avdanאַבְדָןdestructionnot studied yet
- ovdanאׇבְדַןdestructionnot studied yet
- heresהֶרֶס(City of) Destructionnot studied yet
- ḥalophחֲלוֹףdestructionnot studied yet
- mashḥetמַשְׁחֵתdestructionnot studied yet
- qotevקֹטֶבdestructionnot studied yet
- tavlitתַּבְלִיתdestructionnot studied yet
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