Destruction
קֶ֫טֶבStrong’s H6986qetev (qe-tev)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qetev is the Hebrew word usually translated “destruction” and “from destruction”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.”
Meaning
- Destruction
How it's translated
- and destruction 1
- from destruction 1
- destruction 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 91:6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
- Isaiah 28:2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫טֶב qetev · destruction
destruction Also means: qo.tev (קֹטֶב "destruction" H6987)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.