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destroy

Meaning of “destroy”

Sense 1: To ruin, demolish, consume, or lay waste. Sense 2: To kill or cut off. Sense 3: To cause a thing's structure, use, activity, or present condition to cease.

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261 occurrences243 verses44 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 6:7

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Ecclesiastes 5:6
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 5:6 · retained source text

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sinne, neither say thou before the Angel, that it was an errour: wherefore should God be angrie at thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?

Ecclesiastes 7:16
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 7:16 · retained source text

Be not righteous ouer much, neither make thy selfe ouer wise: why shouldest thou destroy thy selfe?

1611 marginal noteHeb. be desolate?

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