Words the Bible translates as ruin
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 22 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- shaḥatשָׁחַתto ruin: to wreck something so it no longer works as it should, whether a thing, a people, or a person's own moral character
- apōleiaἀπώλειαruin, destruction, loss: the wrecking or wasting of something, and in most of the New Testament the final doom of the ungodly
- shadadשָׁדַדto devastate: to wreck something by violence and strip it bare, the ruin a raiding army leaves behind.
- kataskaptōκατασκάπτωto ruinnot studied yet
- suntrimmaσύντριμμαruinnot studied yet
- katastrophēκαταστροφήruinnot studied yet
- havvahהַוָּהdestruction: engulfing ruin, whether a disaster that swallows a victim or the deadly harm people scheme against one another
+1 more meaning
- greedy craving: a grasping, self-serving desire, almost always the wicked's
- mikhsholמִכְשׁוֹלa stumbling block: anything that trips a person up, whether a literal obstacle in the path, the cause or occasion that makes someone fall, or the fall itself
- 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
- ka'avכָּאַבto hurt: to be in pain, in body or in heart, or to cause that pain in someone else
- mappeletמַפֶּלֶתa fall and its wreckage: the crash of something tall or powerful coming down, and the fallen body or trunk left lying where it dropped
- salaphסָלַףto twist something so far that it goes over: to wrench honest words until a just case comes out crooked, or to upend people and leave them in ruin
- iעִיruinnot studied yet
- lavatלָבַטto ruinnot studied yet
- mapelahמַפֵּלָהruinnot studied yet
- avvahעַוָּהruinnot studied yet
- kidכִּידruinnot studied yet
- midḥehמִדְחֶהruinnot studied yet
- she'iyyahשְׁאִיָּהruinnot studied yet
- tevusahתְּבוּסָהruinnot studied yet
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