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destruction

Meaning of “destruction”

The act, result, or state of destroying: ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or that which brings ruin.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
94 occurrences92 verses26 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Deuteronomy 7:23

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Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Lamentations 2:11 · retained source text

Mine eyes doe faile with teares: my bowels are troubled: my liuer is powred vpon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and the sucklings swoone in the streets of the citie.

1611 marginal noteOr, faint.

Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Lamentations 3:47 · retained source text

Feare and a snare is come vpon vs, desolation and destruction.

1611 marginal noteIsai.24.17.

Lamentations 3:48
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Lamentations 3:48 · retained source text

Mine eye runneth downe with riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Lamentations 4:10 · retained source text

The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, they were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

1611 marginal note2.Kings 6.29. deut. 28.57.

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The act of destroying; demolition, overthrow, or ruin. Also death, slaughter, a ruined state, or a cause of destruction.

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