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destroyed

Meaning of “destroyed”

Past-tense or past-participial form of destroy. Sense 1: Ruined, demolished, consumed, or laid waste. Sense 2: Killed or cut off. Sense 3: Caused a thing's structure, use, activity, or present condition to cease.

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167 occurrences164 verses36 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 7:23

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Psalms 9:5
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 9:5 · retained source text

Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast put out their name for euer and euer.

Psalms 9:6
O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
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1611 witness · Psalms 9:6 · retained source text

O thou enemie, destructions are come to a perpetuall end; and thou hast destroyed cities, their memoriall is perished with them.

1611 marginal noteOr, the destructions of the enemy are come to a perpetuall end: and their cities hast thou destroyed, &c.

Psalms 11:3
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 11:3 · retained source text

If the foundations bee destroyed: what can the righteous doe?

Psalms 37:38
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
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1611 witness · Psalms 37:38 · retained source text

But the transgressours shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shalbe cut off.

Psalms 73:27
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
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1611 witness · Psalms 73:27 · retained source text

For loe, they that are farre from thee, shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that goe a whoring from thee.

Psalms 78:38
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 78:38 · retained source text

But hee being full of compassion, forgaue their iniquity, and destroyed them not; yea many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.

Psalms 78:45
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 78:45 · retained source text

Hee sent diuers sorts of flies among them, which deuoured them: and frogges which destroyed them.

1611 marginal noteExod.8.24. & 8.6.

Psalms 78:47
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
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1611 witness · Psalms 78:47 · retained source text

He destroyed their vines with haile: and their Sycomore trees with frost.

1611 marginal noteHeb. killed.

1611 marginal noteOr, great haile stones.

1611 marginal noteExod.9.23.

Psalms 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 92:7 · retained source text

When the wicked spring as the grasse, and when all the workers of iniquitie doe flourish: it is that they shall be destroyed for euer.

Psalms 137:8
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 137:8 · retained source text

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed: happy shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast serued vs.

1611 marginal noteObad. 12, 13.

1611 marginal noteHeb. wasted.

1611 marginal noteHeb. that recompenseth vnto thee thy deed which thou didst to vs.

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