KJV dictionary & concordance
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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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 6:7
Complete exact-word concordance
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Thou shalt destroy them that speake leasing: the LORD will abhorre the bloodie and deceitfull man.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the man of bloods and deceit.
destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
Destroy thou them, O God, let them fall by their owne counsels: cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they haue rebelled against thee.
1611 marginal noteOr, make them guilty.
1611 marginal noteOr, from their counsels.
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
Thou hast also giuen mee the neckes of mine enemies: that I might destroy them that hate me.
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
Because they regard not the workes of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shal destroy them, and not build them vp.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seeke after my soule to destroy it: let them be driuen backward, and put to shame, that wish me euill.
1611 marginal notePsal.34.5. & 70.3.
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
God shall likewise destroy thee for euer, hee shall take thee away and plucke thee out of thy dwelling place, and roote thee out of the land of the liuing. Selah.
1611 marginal noteHeb. beate thee downe.
destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Destroy, O LORD, and diuide their tongues: for I haue seene violence and strife in the citie.
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
But those that seeke my soule to destroy it, shall goe into the lower parts of the earth.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
They that hate mee without a cause, are moe then the haires of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mightie: then I restored that which I tooke not away.
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