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Strong's #684: apoleia (pronounced ap-o'-li-a)

from a presumed derivative of 622; ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal):--damnable(-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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apōleia

1) destroying, utter destruction

1a) of vessels

2) a perishing, ruin, destruction

2a) of money

2b) the destruction which consists of eternal misery in hell

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from a presumed derivative of G622

Citing in TDNT: 1:396, 67




Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

Matthew 7:13: "way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in"
Matthew 26:8: "To what purpose is this waste?"
Mark 14:4: "said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?"
John 17:12: "but the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled."
Acts 8:20: "him, Thy money perish with thee,"
Acts 25:16: "any man to die, before that he which is accused have"
Romans 9:22: "longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:"
Philippians 1:28: "is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation,"
Philippians 3:19: "Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory"
2 Thessalonians 2:3: "be revealed, the son of perdition;"
1 Timothy 6:9: "in destruction and perdition."
Hebrews 10:39: "not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving"
2 Peter 2:1: "you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the"
2 Peter 2:1: "and bring upon themselves swift destruction."
2 Peter 2:2: "many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way"
2 Peter 2:3: "not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
2 Peter 3:7: "the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."
2 Peter 3:16: "unto their own destruction."
Revelation 17:8: "and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the"
Revelation 17:11: "and goeth into perdition."









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