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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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Micah 2:10
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Micah 2:10 · retained source text

Arise ye and depart, for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you euen with a sore destruction.

Micah 5:10
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Micah 5:10 · retained source text

And it shall come to passe in that day, sayth the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy charets.

Micah 5:14
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Micah 5:14 · retained source text

And I will plucke vp thy groues out of the middest of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

1611 marginal noteOr, enemies.

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