KJV dictionary & concordance
Present-participial or verbal-noun form of waste, meaning to consume, devour, destroy, ravage, or desolate.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Isaiah 59:7
Complete exact-word concordance
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, wasting & destruction are in their paths.
1611 marginal noteHeb. breaking.
1611 marginal noteProu.1.15 rom.3.15.
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Uiolence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders, but thou shalt call thy walles saluation, and thy gates praise.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Diminishing by dissipation or by great destruction.
