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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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Leviticus 23:30
And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 23:30 · retained source text

And whatsoeuer soule it bee that doeth any worke in that same day, the same soule will I destroy from among his people.

Leviticus 26:22
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Leviticus 26:22 · retained source text

I will also send wilde beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattell, and make you few in number, and your high wayes shall be desolate.

Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Leviticus 26:30 · retained source text

And I will destroy your high places, and cut downe your images, and cast your carkeises vpon the carkeises of your idoles, and my soule shall abhorre you.

1611 marginal note2.Chro. 34.7.

Leviticus 26:44
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Leviticus 26:44 · retained source text

And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhorre them, to destroy them vtterly, and to breake my couenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 4.31. rom. 11.26.

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