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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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Judges 6:5
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Judges 6:5 · retained source text

For they came vp with their cattell and their tents, and they came as Grashoppers for multitude, for both they and their camels were without number: and they entred into the land to destroy it.

Judges 21:11
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
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1611 witness · Judges 21:11 · retained source text

And this is the thing that yee shall doe, Yee shall vtterly destroy euery male, and euery woman that hath lien by man.

1611 marginal noteHeb. knoweth the lying with man.

1611 marginal noteNum. 31.17.

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