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Strong's G4938 σύντριμμα (syntrimma)

Syntrimma means “destruction” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4938 — mishenah (“staff”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4938
Language Greek
Linked Usages 33
Books 12

Strong's G4938 Quick Answer

Strong's G4938 σύντριμμα (suntrimma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. suntrimma (soon'-trim-mah) n. 1. concussion or utter fracture (properly, concretely), i.e. complete ruin [from G4937] It has 33 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include destruction. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
suntrimma (soon'-trim-mah) n. 1. concussion or utter fracture (properly, concretely), i.e. complete ruin [from G4937]
Usage
33 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
destruction

Meaning and Definition

suntrimma (soon'-trim-mah) n. 1. concussion or utter fracture (properly, concretely), i.e. complete ruin [from G4937] KJV: destruction Root(s): G4937

Original Word
σύντριμμα
Transliteration
suntrimma
Derivation
Root: συντρίβω R1: 4937
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4938. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

ruin

Usage: σύν-τριμμα, -τος, τό (συντρίβω), [in LXX (Lev.21:19, al.) chiefly for שֶׁבֶר; also for שֹׁד (Isa.59:7), etc. ;] a fracture (Arist.; Le, l.with, al.). Metaphorical, calamity, destruction (Isa, l.with, Wis.3:3, al.): Rom.3:16" (LXX) .† (AS)

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How Strong's G4938 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render suntrimma, 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.

Destruction Romans 3:16

How Strong's G4938 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 29 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4938 (σύντριμμα) appears 35 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4938 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4938 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Romans 3:16 KJV

Destruction and misery are in their ways:

Strong's G4938 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

29 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Leviticus 21:19 Septuagint / Brenton

a man who has a broken hand or a broken foot,

Leviticus 24:20 Septuagint / Brenton

bruise for bruise, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as anyone may inflict a blemish on a man, so shall it be rendered to him.

Job 9:17 Septuagint / Brenton

Let him not crush me with a dark storm: But he has made my bruises many without cause.

Strong's G4938 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 2:7 Septuagint / Brenton

he said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people, and of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy, and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers?

Wisdom of Solomon 3:3 Septuagint / Brenton

And their going from us to be utter destruction: But they are in peace.

Wisdom of Sirach 40:9 Septuagint / Brenton

Death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, Calamities, famine, tribulation, and the scourge;

Usage Excerpts

First 33 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4938.

Leviticus 21:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
a man who has a broken hand or a broken foot,
Leviticus 24:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
bruise for bruise, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as anyone may inflict a blemish on a man, so shall it be rendered to him.
Job 9:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let him not crush me with a dark storm: But he has made my bruises many without cause.
Psalms 13:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, There is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their tongues they have used deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Psalms 59:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast shaken the earth, and troubled it; Heal its breaches, for it has been shaken.
Psalms 146:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He heals the broken in heart, And binds up their wounds.
Proverbs 20:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And plagues shall come into the inward parts of their belly.
Proverbs 23:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who has woe? who trouble? who has quarrels? And who vexations and disputes? Who has bruises without a cause? Whose eyes are livid?
Isaiah 15:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Zoar; for it is as a heifer of three years old: and on the ascent of Eglath they shall go up to thee weeping by the way of Horonaim: she cries, Destruction, and trembling.
Isaiah 22:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah 28:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear.
Isaiah 30:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the fall thereof shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, as small fragments of a pitcher, so that thou shouldest not find among them a sherd, with which thou mightest take up fire, and with which thou shouldest draw a little water.
Isaiah 30:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of thy wound.
Isaiah 51:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore these things are against thee; who shall sympathize with thee in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort thee?
Isaiah 59:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;
Isaiah 60:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And injustice shall no more be heard in thy land, nor destruction nor misery in thy coasts; but thy walls shall be called Salvation, and thy gates Sculptured Work.
Jeremiah 3:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Turn, ye children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be thy servants; for thou art the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 6:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they healed the breach of my people imperfectly, making light of it, and saying, Peace, peace: and where is peace?
Jeremiah 8:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 10:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
Jeremiah 14:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt speak this word to them; Let your eyes shed tears day and night, and let them not cease: for the daughter of my people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.
Jeremiah 17:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let them that persecute me be ashamed, but let me not be ashamed: let them be alarmed, but let me not be alarmed: bring upon them the evil day, crush them with double destruction.
Jeremiah 31:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for there is a voice of men crying out of Horonaim, destruction and great ruin.
Jeremiah 31:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for Luhith is filled with weeping: one shall go up weeping by the way of Horonaim; ye have heard a cry of destruction.
Jeremiah 37:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; I have brought on thee destruction; thy stroke is painful.
Lamentations 2:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Mine eyes have failed with tears, My heart is troubled, My glory is cast down to the ground, For the destruction of the daughter of my people; While the infant and suckling swoon In the streets of the city.
Lamentations 3:48 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The hands of tenderhearted women Have sodden their own children: They became meat for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Amos 9:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I will give commandment, and sift the house of Israel among all the Gentiles, as corn is sifted in a sieve, and yet a fragment shall not in anywise fall upon the earth.
Romans 3:16 New Testament, KJV
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
1 Maccabees 2:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
he said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people, and of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy, and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers?
Wisdom of Solomon 3:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And their going from us to be utter destruction: But they are in peace.
Wisdom of Sirach 40:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, Calamities, famine, tribulation, and the scourge;

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4938, grouped by book.

Leviticus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4938 FAQ

What does syntrimma (σύντριμμα) mean?

Syntrimma (Strong's G4938) is a Greek word most simply glossed "destruction". suntrimma (soon'-trim-mah) n. 1. concussion or utter fracture (properly, concretely), i.e. complete ruin [from G4937]

How many times is syntrimma (σύντριμμα) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 33 linked usages for Strong's G4938 across 12 books.

Where can I study syntrimma (σύντριμμα) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4938 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate syntrimma (σύντριμμα)?

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.

Does Strong's G4938 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 29 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4938, with linked reader references where each row is available.