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overthrow

Meaning of “overthrow”

Sense 1: To throw down, overturn, defeat, destroy, ruin, abolish, make ineffective, or bring to an end. Sense 2: The resulting destruction, downfall, defeat, or reversal.

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19 occurrences18 verses12 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 19:21

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Psalms 106:26
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 106:26 · retained source text

Therefore he lifted vp his hande against them: to ouerthrow them in the wildernesse:

Psalms 106:27
To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
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1611 witness · Psalms 106:27 · retained source text

To ouerthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to make them fall.

Psalms 140:4
Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
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1611 witness · Psalms 140:4 · retained source text

Keepe me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked, preserue me from the violent man: who haue purposed to ouerthrow my goings.

Psalms 140:11
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
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1611 witness · Psalms 140:11 · retained source text

Let not an euill speaker bee established in the earth: euill shall hunt the violent man to ouerthrow him.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a man of tongue: or, an euill speaker, a wicked man of violence be established in the earth: let him be hunted to his ouerthrow.

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