Destroy in the Bible: 261 times in the King James Version

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destroy KJV

“Destroy” is in the King James Bible 261 times, in 243 verses. Jump to the verses ↓

שׁחת shâchath 68 times
אבד 'âbad 40 times
שׁמד shâmad 40 times
ἀπόλλυμι apollumi 19 times
חרם châram 14 times
בּלע bâla‛ 7 times
καταλύω kataluō 6 times
חבל châbal 5 times
אבד 'ăbad 4 times
משׁחית mashchı̂yth 4 times
נתץ nâthats 4 times
צמת tsâmath 4 times

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καταργέω katargeō 3 times
המם hâmam 3 times
מוּל mûl 3 times
ספה sâphâh 3 times
שׁמם shâmêm 3 times
διαφθείρω diaphtheirō 2 times
λύω luō 2 times
חבל chăbal 2 times
כּרת kârath 2 times
מחה mâchâh 2 times
שׁבר shâbar 2 times
φθείρω phtheirō 1 time
אסף 'âsaph 1 time
אשׁם אשׁם 'âsham 'âshêm 1 time
את 'êth 1 time
גּרר gârar 1 time
דּכא dâkâ' 1 time
דּמה dâmâh 1 time
הוּם hûm 1 time
הרס hâras 1 time
ינה yânâh 1 time
ירשׁ ירשׁ yârash yârêsh 1 time
כּלה kâlâh 1 time
מגר megar 1 time
מוּת mûth 1 time
נסח nâsach 1 time
נקף nâqaph 1 time
נשׁם nâsham 1 time
קוּר qûr 1 time
שׁדד shâdad 1 time
שׁוא שׁואה שׁאה shô' shô'âh shô'âh 1 time
שׁכל shâkôl 1 time

8 verses in 2 Samuel Show all

2 Samuel

1:14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
14:7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
14:11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
14:16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
20:19 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
20:20 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
22:41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
24:16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

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