Destruction
ἀπώλειαStrong’s G0684apōleia
Appears in 18 verses of the New Testament
In short
Apōleia is the Greek word usually translated “destruction”, “waste” and “punishment”. It appears in 18 verses of the New Testament.
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;”
Meaning
Usually translated “destruction”, “waste” and “punishment”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- destruction 12
- of destruction 3
- waste 2
- punishment 1
- destructive 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Peter 4
- Matthew 2
- Acts 2
- Philippians 2
- Revelation 2
- Mark 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Timothy 6:9In contextBut they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
- 2 Peter 2:1In contextBut there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
- 2 Peter 2:3In contextAnd through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
- 2 Peter 3:7In contextBut the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
- 2 Peter 3:16In contextAs also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
- Matthew 7:13Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Greek dictionary
ἀπώλεια apōleia · destruction
ἀπώλεια, -ας, ἡ (ἀπόλλυμι), [in LXX (Cremer, 797) for אָבַד, אֵיד, etc. ;] destruction, waste, loss, perishing (in π., of money, see MM, see word): Mat.26:8, Mrk.14:4, Act.8:20, Rom.9:22, 1Ti.6:9, 2Pe.2:1; in special sense of the loss of eternal life, perdition, the antithesis of σωτηρία: Mat.7:13, Jhn.17:12, Php.1:28 3:19, 2Th.2:3, Heb.10:39, 2Pe.2:3 3:7 3:16, Rev.17:8, 11 (DB, iii, 744).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “destruction” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESTRUCTION, noun
- The act of destroying; demolition; a pulling down; subversion; ruin, by whatever means; as the destruction of buildings, or of towns. destruction consists in the annihilation of the form of any theing; that form of parts which constitues it what it is; as the destruction of grass or herbage by eating; of a forest, by cutting down the trees; or it denotes a total annihilation; as the destruction of a particular government; the destruction of happiness.
- Death; murder; slaughter; massacre.“There was a deadly destruction throughout all the city” 1 Samuel 5:11
- Ruin.“DESTRUCTION and misery are in their ways” Romans 3:16
- Eternal death.“Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction” Matthew 7:13
All definitions
- Cause of destruction; a consuming plague; a destroyer.“The destruction that wasteth at noon-day” Psalms 91:6
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.