KJV dictionary & concordance

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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Hosea 2:12

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And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

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The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Hosea 2:12 · retained source text

And I will destroy her vines and her figge trees, whereof she hath said; These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen me: and I will make them a forrest, and the beasts of the field shall eate them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. make desolate.

Hosea 4:5

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Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

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1611 witness · Hosea 4:5 · retained source text

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cut off

Hosea 11:9

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I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

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1611 witness · Hosea 11:9 · retained source text

I will not execute the fiercenes of mine anger, I will not returne to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee, and I will not enter into the citie.

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Genesis 6:7 Genesis 6:13 Genesis 6:17 Genesis 7:4 Genesis 9:11 Genesis 9:15 Genesis 18:23 Genesis 18:24 Genesis 18:28 Genesis 18:31 Genesis 18:32 Genesis 19:13 Genesis 19:14 Exodus 8:9 Exodus 12:13 Exodus 15:9 Exodus 23:27 Exodus 34:13 Leviticus 23:30 Leviticus 26:22 Leviticus 26:30 Leviticus 26:44 Numbers 21:2 Numbers 24:17 Numbers 24:19 Numbers 32:15 Numbers 33:52 Deuteronomy 1:27 Deuteronomy 2:15 Deuteronomy 4:31 Deuteronomy 6:15 Deuteronomy 7:2 Deuteronomy 7:4 Deuteronomy 7:5 Deuteronomy 7:10 Deuteronomy 7:23 Deuteronomy 7:24 Deuteronomy 9:3 Deuteronomy 9:14 Deuteronomy 9:19 Deuteronomy 9:25 Deuteronomy 9:26 Deuteronomy 10:10 Deuteronomy 12:2 Deuteronomy 12:3 Deuteronomy 20:17 Deuteronomy 20:19 Deuteronomy 20:20 Deuteronomy 28:63 Deuteronomy 31:3 Deuteronomy 32:25 Deuteronomy 33:27 Joshua 7:7 Joshua 7:12 Joshua 9:24 Joshua 11:20 Joshua 22:33 Judges 6:5 Judges 21:11 1 Samuel 15:3 1 Samuel 15:6 1 Samuel 15:9 1 Samuel 15:18 1 Samuel 23:10 1 Samuel 24:21 1 Samuel 26:9 1 Samuel 26:15 2 Samuel 1:14 2 Samuel 14:7 2 Samuel 14:11 2 Samuel 14:16 2 Samuel 20:19 2 Samuel 20:20 2 Samuel 22:41 2 Samuel 24:16 1 Kings 9:21 1 Kings 13:34 1 Kings 16:12 2 Kings 8:19 2 Kings 10:19 2 Kings 13:23 2 Kings 18:25 2 Kings 24:2 1 Chronicles 21:15 2 Chronicles 12:7 2 Chronicles 12:12 2 Chronicles 20:23 2 Chronicles 21:7 2 Chronicles 25:16 2 Chronicles 35:21 Ezra 6:12 Esther 3:6 Esther 3:13 Esther 4:7 Esther 4:8 Esther 8:5 Esther 8:11 Esther 9:24 Job 2:3 Job 6:9 Job 8:18 Job 10:8 Job 19:26 Psalms 5:6 Psalms 5:10 Psalms 18:40 Psalms 21:10 Psalms 28:5 Psalms 40:14 Psalms 52:5 Psalms 55:9 Psalms 63:9 Psalms 69:4 Psalms 74:8 Psalms 101:8 Psalms 106:23 Psalms 106:34 Psalms 118:10 Psalms 118:11 Psalms 118:12 Psalms 119:95 Psalms 143:12 Psalms 144:6 Psalms 145:20 Proverbs 1:32 Proverbs 11:3 Proverbs 15:25 Proverbs 21:7 Ecclesiastes 5:6 Ecclesiastes 7:16 Isaiah 3:12 Isaiah 10:7 Isaiah 11:9 Isaiah 11:15 Isaiah 13:5 Isaiah 13:9 Isaiah 19:3 Isaiah 23:11 Isaiah 25:7 Isaiah 32:7 Isaiah 36:10 Isaiah 42:14 Isaiah 51:13 Isaiah 54:16 Isaiah 65:8 Isaiah 65:25 Jeremiah 1:10 Jeremiah 5:10 Jeremiah 6:5 Jeremiah 11:19 Jeremiah 12:17 Jeremiah 13:14 Jeremiah 15:3 Jeremiah 15:6 Jeremiah 15:7 Jeremiah 17:18 Jeremiah 18:7 Jeremiah 23:1 Jeremiah 25:9 Jeremiah 31:28 Jeremiah 36:29 Jeremiah 46:8 Jeremiah 48:18 Jeremiah 49:9 Jeremiah 49:38 Jeremiah 50:21 Jeremiah 50:26 Jeremiah 51:3 Jeremiah 51:11 Jeremiah 51:20 Lamentations 2:8 Lamentations 3:66 Ezekiel 5:16 Ezekiel 6:3 Ezekiel 9:8 Ezekiel 14:9 Ezekiel 21:31 Ezekiel 22:27 Ezekiel 22:30 Ezekiel 25:7 Ezekiel 25:15 Ezekiel 25:16 Ezekiel 26:4 Ezekiel 26:12 Ezekiel 28:16 Ezekiel 30:11 Ezekiel 30:13 Ezekiel 32:13 Ezekiel 34:16 Ezekiel 43:3 Daniel 2:12 Daniel 2:24 Daniel 4:23 Daniel 7:26 Daniel 8:24 Daniel 8:25 Daniel 9:26 Daniel 11:26 Daniel 11:44 Hosea 2:12 Hosea 4:5 Hosea 11:9 Amos 9:8 Obadiah 1:8 Micah 2:10 Micah 5:10 Micah 5:14 Zephaniah 2:5 Zephaniah 2:13 Haggai 2:22 Zechariah 12:9 Malachi 3:11 Matthew 2:13 Matthew 5:17 Matthew 10:28 Matthew 12:14 Matthew 21:41 Matthew 26:61 Matthew 27:20 Mark 1:24 Mark 3:6 Mark 9:22 Mark 11:18 Mark 12:9 Mark 14:58 Luke 4:34 Luke 6:9 Luke 9:56 Luke 19:47 Luke 20:16 John 2:19 John 10:10 Acts 6:14 Romans 14:15 Romans 14:20 1 Corinthians 1:19 1 Corinthians 3:17 1 Corinthians 6:13 2 Thessalonians 2:8 Hebrews 2:14 James 4:12 1 John 3:8 Revelation 11:18

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Genesis 6:7 Joshua 9:24 2 Kings 18:25 Psalm 40:14 Psalm 101:8 Jeremiah 31:28 Matthew 10:28 John 2:19 Psalms 101:8 Deuteronomy 7:23 2 Samuel 14:11 Psalms 5:10 Isaiah 25:7 Ezekiel 6:3 Zephaniah 2:5 Revelation 11:18

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