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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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First occurrence: Genesis 19:21

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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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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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.

Proverbs 18:5
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Proverbs 18:5 · retained source text

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to ouerthrowe the righteous in iudgement.

1611 marginal noteChap.24.23. leuit. 19.15 deut.11.7. and 16.19.

Jeremiah 49:18
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 49:18 · retained source text

As in the ouerthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD: no man shall abide there, neither shall a sonne of man dwell in it.

1611 marginal noteGen. 19.25. chap. 50 40.

Haggai 2:22
And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.
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And I will ouerthrow the throne of kingdomes, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdomes of the heathen, and I will ouerthrow the charets, and those that ride in them, and the horses and their riders shall come downe, euery one by the sword of his brother.

Acts 5:39
But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
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1611 witness · Acts 5:39 · retained source text

But if it be of God, ye cannot ouerthrow it, lest haply yee be found euen to fight against God.

2 Peter 2:6
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
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And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes, condemned them with an ouerthrowe, making them an ensample vnto those that after should liue vngodly:

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