ἀπόλλυμι apóllymi
Meaning
to destroy fully (reflexively, to perish, or lose), literally or figuratively
In the King James Version: destroy, die, lose, mar, perish
Derivation: from G575 (ἀπό) and the base of G3639 (ὄλεθρος);
Where it is used
- Matthew 2:13 When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”
- Matthew 5:29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
- Matthew 5:30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.
- Matthew 8:25 The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
- Matthew 9:17 Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
- Matthew 10:6 Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.
- Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
- Matthew 10:39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
- Matthew 10:42 And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
- Matthew 12:14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.
- Matthew 15:24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
- Matthew 16:25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
- Matthew 18:11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
- Matthew 18:14 In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
- Matthew 21:41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
- Matthew 22:7 The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
- Matthew 26:52 “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.
- Matthew 27:20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death.
- Mark 1:24 “What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
- Mark 2:22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”
- Mark 3:6 At this, the Pharisees went out and began plotting with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.
- Mark 4:38 But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said, “Teacher, don’t You care that we are perishing?”
- Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.
- Mark 9:22 “It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
- Mark 9:41 Indeed, if anyone gives you even a cup of water because you bear the name of Christ, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.
- Mark 11:18 When the chief priests and scribes heard this, they looked for a way to kill Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.
- Mark 12:9 What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
- Luke 4:34 “Ha! What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
- Luke 5:37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined.
- Luke 6:9 Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”
- Luke 8:24 The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters, and they subsided, and all was calm.
- Luke 9:24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
- Luke 9:25 What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
- Luke 9:56 And He and His disciples went on to another village.
- Luke 11:51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, all of it will be charged to this generation.
- Luke 13:3 No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
- Luke 13:5 No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
- Luke 13:33 Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
- Luke 15:4 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
- Luke 15:6 comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!’
- Luke 15:8 Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?
- Luke 15:9 And when she finds it, she calls together her friends and neighbors to say, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost coin.’
- Luke 15:17 Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but here I am, starving to death!
- Luke 15:24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
- Luke 15:32 But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
- Luke 17:27 People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
- Luke 17:29 But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- Luke 17:33 Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
- Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- Luke 19:47 Jesus was teaching at the temple every day, but the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people were intent on killing Him.
- Luke 20:16 He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” And when the people heard this, they said, “May such a thing never happen!”
- Luke 21:18 Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.
- John 3:15 that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
- John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 6:12 And when everyone was full, He said to His disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over, so that nothing will be wasted.”
- John 6:27 Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
- John 6:39 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
- John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
- John 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
- John 11:50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”