Olethros means “destruction” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3639 — kelimmah (“disgrace”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3639 ὄλεθρος (olethros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. olethros (ol'-eth-ros) n. 1. ruin, i.e. death, punishment [from a primary ollumi "to destroy" (a prolonged form)] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include destruction. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
olethros (ol'-eth-ros) n. 1. ruin, i.e. death, punishment [from a primary ollumi "to destroy" (a prolonged form)] KJV: destruction
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3639. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
destructive
Usage: ὄλεθρος, -ον (ὄλλυμι, to destroy), [in LXX for שֹׁד. שָׁדַד, etc. ;] ruin, destruction, death: 1Th.5:3, 1Ti.6:9; αἰώνιος, 2Th.1:9 (L, txt., ὀλέθριος, which see); εἰς ὄ. τῆς σαρκός, for physical discipline, to destroy carnal lusts, 1Co.5:5.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render olethros, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3639 (ὄλεθρος) appears 23 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
13 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to its destruction and its removal from the face of the earth.
Therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; And I will rejoice against you when ruin comes upon you:
Yea when dismay suddenly comes upon you, And your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; And when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, Or when ruin shall come upon you.
10 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Now when they shall bring them word, they will forthwith do it, and they shall be given thee to be destroyed the same day.
Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.
And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.
First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3639.
And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to its destruction and its removal from the face of the earth.
Therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; And I will rejoice against you when ruin comes upon you:
Yea when dismay suddenly comes upon you, And your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; And when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, Or when ruin shall come upon you.
Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; For they refuse to do justly.
for the Lord has utterly destroyed Babylon, and cut off from her the great voice sounding as many waters: he has consigned her voice to destruction.
for there is a voice of men crying out of Horonaim, destruction and great ruin.
And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.
O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come upon thy fruits, and upon thy grape-gatherers.
even upon the extreme part of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations, he is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, saith the Lord.
And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Riblah, in all their habitations: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
and if these three men should be in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be saved, but these only shall be saved, and the land shall be destroyed.
Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them, and Machmas shall bury them: as for their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thorns shall be in their tents.
Neither shouldest thou have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet shouldest thou have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor shouldest thou have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
But 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.
Now when they shall bring them word, they will forthwith do it, and they shall be given thee to be destroyed the same day.
Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.
And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.
The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and bade him provide a seven days’ quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction.
Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out.
By the blessed death of my brethren, and the eternal punishment of the tyrant, and the glorious life of the pious, I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood.
Seek not death in the error of your life: And pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.
For he created all things, that they might have their being: And the generations of the world were healthful; And there is no poison of destruction in them, Nor the kingdom of death upon the earth
For whereas they would not believe anything by reason of the enchantments; Upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged this people to be the sons of God.
Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, serpents, And the sword, punishing the wicked to destruction,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3639, grouped by book.
Olethros (Strong's G3639) is a Greek word most simply glossed "destruction". olethros (ol'-eth-ros) n. 1. ruin, i.e. death, punishment [from a primary ollumi "to destroy" (a prolonged form)]
This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's G3639 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3639 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as destruction. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 13 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 10 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3639, with linked reader references where each row is available.