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Strong's #622: apollumi (pronounced ap-ol'-loo-mee)

from 575 and the base of 3639; to destroy fully (reflexively, to perish, or lose), literally or figuratively:--destroy, die, lose, mar, perish.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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apollumi

1) to destroy

1a) to put out of the way entirely, abolish, put an end to ruin

1b) render useless

1c) to kill

1d) to declare that one must be put to death

1e) metaphorically to devote or give over to eternal misery in hell

1f) to perish, to be lost, ruined, destroyed

2) to destroy

2a) to lose

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G575 and the base of G3639

Citing in TDNT: 1:394, 67




Usage:

This word is used 92 times:

Luke 17:27: "flood came, and destroyed them all."
Luke 17:29: "from heaven, and destroyed them all."
Luke 17:33: "shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever"
Luke 17:33: "shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve"
Luke 19:10: "to seek and to save that which was lost."
Luke 19:47: "the chief of the people sought to destroy him,"
Luke 20:16: "He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the"
Luke 21:18: "of your head perish."
John 3:15: "in him should not perish, but have eternal life."
John 3:16: "in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
John 6:12: "that remain, that nothing be lost."
John 6:27: "not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto"
John 6:39: "he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again"
John 10:10: "and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have"
John 10:28: "life; and they shall never perish, neither"
John 11:50: "that the whole nation perish not."
John 12:25: "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his"
John 17:12: "none of them is lost, but the son of perdition;"
John 18:9: "thou gavest me have I lost none."
John 18:14: "it was expedient that one man should die for the people."
Acts 5:37: "after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed"
Romans 2:12: "have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned"
Romans 14:15: "thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him"
1 Corinthians 1:18: "the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us"
1 Corinthians 1:19: "For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and"
1 Corinthians 8:11: "shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?"
1 Corinthians 10:9: "also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents."
1 Corinthians 10:10: "also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer."
1 Corinthians 15:18: "they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished."
2 Corinthians 2:15: "them that are saved, and in them that perish:"
2 Corinthians 4:3: "hid, it is hid to them that are lost:"
2 Corinthians 4:9: "cast down, but not destroyed;"
2 Thessalonians 2:10: "deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not"
Hebrews 1:11: "They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old"
James 1:11: "of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man"
James 4:12: "who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that"
1 Peter 1:7: "being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire,"
2 Peter 3:6: "world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished."
2 Peter 3:9: "us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come"
2 John 1:8: "Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but"
Jude 1:5: "out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not."
Jude 1:11: "of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah."









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