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Strong's G684 ἀπώλεια (apoleia)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H684 — otsem (“Ozem”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G684
Language Greek
Linked Usages 129
Books 38

Strong's G684 Quick Answer

Strong's G684 ἀπώλεια (apoleia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apoleia (ap-o'-lei-a) n. 1. destruction, ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal) [from a presumed derivative of G622] It has 129 linked Bible usages across 38 books. Visible English usage signals include destruction. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
apoleia (ap-o'-lei-a) n. 1. destruction, ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal) [from a presumed derivative of G622]
Usage
129 linked usages
Books
38 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
destruction

Meaning and Definition

apoleia (ap-o'-lei-a) n. 1. destruction, ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal) [from a presumed derivative of G622] KJV: damnable(-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste Root(s): G622

Original Word
ἀπώλεια
Transliteration
apoleia
Derivation
Root: ἀπόλλυμι R1: 622
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G684. 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)

destruction

Usage: ἀπώλεια, -ας, ἡ (ἀπόλλυμι), [in LXX (Cremer, 797) for אָבַד, אֵיד, etc. ;] destruction, waste, loss, perishing (in π., of money, see MM, see word): Mat.26:8, Mrk.14:4, Act.8:20, Rom.9:22, 1Ti.6:9, 2Pe.2:1; in special sense of the loss of eternal life, perdition, the antithesis of σωτηρία: Mat.7:13, Jhn.17:12, Php.1:28 3:19, 2Th.2:3, Heb.10:39, 2Pe.2:3 3:7 3:16, Rev.17:8, 11 (DB, iii, 744).† (AS)

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How Strong's G684 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apoleia, 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 Matthew 7:13

How Strong's G684 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. 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 70 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.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G684 (ἀπώλεια) appears 111 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G684 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 G684 in the New Testament

19 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 7:13 KJV

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Matthew 26:8 KJV

But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

Mark 14:4 KJV

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

Strong's G684 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

70 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 22:8 Septuagint / Brenton

according to every injury alleged, both concerning a calf, and an ass, and a sheep, and a garment, and every alleged loss, whatsoever in fact it may be—the judgment of both shall proceed before God, and he that is convicted by God shall repay to his neighbor double.

Leviticus 5:22 Septuagint / Brenton

or has found that which was lost, and shall have lied concerning it, and shall have sworn unjustly concerning any one of all the things, whatsoever a man may do, so as to sin hereby;

Leviticus 5:23 Septuagint / Brenton

it shall come to pass, whensoever he shall have sinned, and transgressed, that he shall restore the plunder which he has seized, or redress the injury which he has committed, or restore the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost article which he has found

Strong's G684 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

30 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 6:4 Septuagint / Brenton

For with them we will tread them under foot, and their mountains shall be drunken with their blood, and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able to stand before us, for they shall utterly perish, saith King Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words shall be in vain.

Judith 7:25 Septuagint / Brenton

For now we have no helper: but God hath sold us into their hands, that we should be thrown down before them with thirst and great destruction.

Judith 11:22 Septuagint / Brenton

Likewise Holofernes said unto her, God hath done well to send thee before the people, that strength might be in our hands, and destruction upon them that lightly regard my lord.

Strong's G684 in 1 Enoch

10 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 5:4 Septuagint / Brenton

But ye -ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord, But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words With your impure mouths against His greatness. Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G684.

Exodus 22:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
according to every injury alleged, both concerning a calf, and an ass, and a sheep, and a garment, and every alleged loss, whatsoever in fact it may be—the judgment of both shall proceed before God, and he that is convicted by God shall repay to his neighbor double.
Leviticus 5:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
or has found that which was lost, and shall have lied concerning it, and shall have sworn unjustly concerning any one of all the things, whatsoever a man may do, so as to sin hereby;
Leviticus 5:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
it shall come to pass, whensoever he shall have sinned, and transgressed, that he shall restore the plunder which he has seized, or redress the injury which he has committed, or restore the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost article which he has found
Numbers 20:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people reviled Moses, saying, Would we had died in the destruction of our brethren before the Lord!
Deuteronomy 4:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that ye shall surely perish from off the land, into which ye go across Jordan to inherit it there; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off.
Deuteronomy 7:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy them with a great destruction, until ye shall have utterly destroyed them.
Deuteronomy 8:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and shouldest go after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy 12:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places in which they served their gods, whose land ye inherit, on the high mountains and on the hills, and under the thick tree.
Deuteronomy 22:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus shalt thou do to his ass, and thus shalt thou do to his garment, and thus shalt thou do to everything that thy brother has lost; whatsoever shall have been lost by him, and thou shalt have found, thou shalt not have power to overlook.
Deuteronomy 30:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I declare to you this day, that ye shall utterly perish, and ye shall by no means live long upon the land, into which ye go over Jordan to inherit it.
Deuteronomy 32:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the day of vengeance I will recompense, Whensoever their foot shall be tripped up; For the day of their destruction is near to them, And the judgments at hand are close upon you.
1 Chronicles 21:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David said to God, Was it not I that gave orders to number the people? and I am the guilty one; I have greatly sinned: but these sheep, what have they done? O Lord God, let thy hand be upon me, and upon my father’s house, and not on thy people for destruction, O Lord!
Esther 7:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; both we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I consented not to it, for the slanderer is not worthy of the king’s palace.
Esther 8:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For how shall I be able to look upon the affliction of my people, and how shall I be able to survive the destruction of my kindred?
Job 11:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But safety shall fail them; For their hope is destruction, And the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.
Job 20:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, And the joy of transgressors is destruction:
Job 20:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let destruction bring his house to an end; Let a day of wrath come upon him.
Job 21:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: They shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.
Job 26:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hell is naked before him, And destruction has no covering.
Job 27:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, And they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.
Job 28:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it.
Job 30:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; They have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.
Job 31:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, And rejection to them that do iniquity.
Job 41:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And power is lodged in his neck, Before him destruction runs.
Psalms 87:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Shall anyone declare thy mercy in the tomb? And thy truth in destruction?
Proverbs 1:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; And I will rejoice against you when ruin comes upon you:
Proverbs 6:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Overthrow and irretrievable ruin.
Proverbs 6:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Proverbs 10:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There is a fountain of life in the hand of a righteous man; But destruction shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.
Proverbs 10:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the desire of the righteous is acceptable.
Proverbs 11:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When a just man dies he leaves regret: But the destruction of the ungodly is speedy, and causes joy.
Proverbs 11:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The righteousness of upright men delivers them: But transgressors are caught in their own destruction.
Proverbs 13:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A wise son is obedient to his father: But a disobedient son will be destroyed.
Proverbs 13:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And to know the law is the part of a sound understanding: But the ways of scorners tend to destruction.
Proverbs 15:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hell and destruction are manifest to the Lord; How shall not also be the hearts of men?
Proverbs 16:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A man who labors, labors for himself, and drives from him his own ruin.
Proverbs 35:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 14:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.
Isaiah 22:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For it is a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and there is perplexity sent from the Lord of hosts: they wander in the Valley of Zion; they wander from the least to the greatest on the mountains.
Isaiah 33:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in thee: the seed of the rebellious is gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.
Isaiah 34:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.
Isaiah 34:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.
Isaiah 47:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And destruction shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not be aware; there shall be a pit, and thou shalt fall into it: and grief shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not be able to be clear; and destruction shall come suddenly upon thee, and thou shalt not know.
Isaiah 54:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I have created thee, not as the coppersmith blowing coals, and bringing out a vessel fit for work; but I have created thee, not for ruin, that I should destroy thee.
Isaiah 57:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherein have ye been rioting? and against whom have ye opened your mouth, and against whom have ye loosed your tongue? are ye not children of perdition? a lawless seed?
Jeremiah 12:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
it is made a complete ruin: for my sake the whole land has been utterly ruined, because there is none that lays the matter to heart.
Jeremiah 12:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if they will not return, then will I cut off that nation with utter ruin and destruction.
Jeremiah 18:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will scatter them before their enemies like an east wind; I will show them the day of their destruction.
Jeremiah 26:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Also her hired soldiers in the midst of her are as fatted calves fed in her; for they also have turned, and fled with one accord: they stood not, for the day of destruction was come upon them, and the time of their retribution.
Jeremiah 30:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will cause to be heard in Rabbah a tumult of wars; and they shall become a waste and ruined place, and her altars shall be burned with fire; then shall Israel succeed to his dominion.
Jeremiah 30:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall take their tents and their sheep, they shall take for themselves their garments, and all their baggage and their camels; and summon ye destruction against them from every side.
Jeremiah 30:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle shall be destroyed: and I will scatter them as chaff with every wind, having their hair cut about their foreheads, I will bring on their overthrow from all sides, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed small and great: and they shall be for reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse.
Ezekiel 25:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
therefore I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a spoil to the nations; and I will utterly destroy thee from among the peoples, and I will completely cut thee off from out of the countries: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 26:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their crowns from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered raiment: they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their own destruction, and shall groan over thee.
Ezekiel 26:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will make thee a destruction, and thou shalt be no more forever, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 27:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Merchants from the nations have hissed at thee; thou art utterly destroyed, and shalt not be anymore forever.
Ezekiel 28:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because of this, behold, I will bring on thee strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against thee, and against the beauty of thy knowledge,
Ezekiel 28:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all that know thee among the nations shall groan over thee: thou art gone to destruction, and thou shalt not exist anymore.
Ezekiel 29:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the land of Egypt shall be ruined and desert; and they shall know that I am the Lord; because thou sayest, The rivers are mine, and I made them.
Ezekiel 29:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Migdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians.
Ezekiel 29:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be desolate forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will utterly scatter them into the countries.
Ezekiel 31:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wrought his destruction.
Ezekiel 32:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
when I shall give up Egypt to destruction, and the land shall be made desolate with the fullness thereof; when I shall scatter all that dwell in it, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Daniel 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing has departed from me: if ye do not make known to me the dream and the interpretation, ye shall be destroyed, and your houses shall be spoiled.
Daniel 3:96 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
or language, that shall speak reproachfully against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be destroyed, and their houses shall be plundered: because there is no other God who shall be able to deliver thus.
Daniel 8:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the yoke of his chain shall prosper: there is craft in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by craft shall destroy many, and he shall stand up for the destruction of many, and shall crush them as eggs in his hand.
Hosea 10:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore shall destruction rise up among thy people, and all thy strong places shall be ruined: as prince Solomon departed out of the house of Jeroboam, in the days of battle they dashed the mother to the ground upon the children,
Obadiah 1:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of strangers; nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have boasted in the day of their affliction.
Obadiah 1:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Matthew 7:13 New Testament, KJV
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Matthew 26:8 New Testament, KJV
But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
Mark 14:4 New Testament, KJV
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
John 17:12 New Testament, KJV
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Acts 8:20 New Testament, KJV
But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Acts 25:16 New Testament, KJV
To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Romans 9:22 New Testament, KJV
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Philippians 1:28 New Testament, KJV
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
Philippians 3:19 New Testament, KJV
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
2 Thessalonians 2:3 New Testament, KJV
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
1 Timothy 6:9 New Testament, KJV
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.
Hebrews 10:39 New Testament, KJV
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
2 Peter 2:1 New Testament, KJV
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:2 New Testament, KJV
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2 Peter 2:3 New Testament, KJV
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
2 Peter 3:7 New Testament, KJV
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2 Peter 3:16 New Testament, KJV
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Revelation 17:8 New Testament, KJV
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Revelation 17:11 New Testament, KJV
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Judith 6:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For with them we will tread them under foot, and their mountains shall be drunken with their blood, and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able to stand before us, for they shall utterly perish, saith King Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words shall be in vain.
Judith 7:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For now we have no helper: but God hath sold us into their hands, that we should be thrown down before them with thirst and great destruction.
Judith 11:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Likewise Holofernes said unto her, God hath done well to send thee before the people, that strength might be in our hands, and destruction upon them that lightly regard my lord.
Judith 13:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As the Lord liveth, who hath kept me in my way that I went, my countenance hath deceived him to his destruction, and yet hath he not committed sin with me, to defile and shame me.
Tobit 13:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For he doth scourge, and hath mercy: he leadeth down to hell, and bringeth up again: neither is there any that can avoid his hand.
Tobit 14:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which was taken by Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus: and before his death he rejoiced over Nineveh.
1 Maccabees 3:42 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when Judas and his brethren saw that miseries were multiplied, and that the forces did encamp themselves in their borders; for they knew how the king had given commandment to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them;
2 Maccabees 8:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and remember the wicked slaughter of harmless infants, and the blasphemies committed against his name; and that he would show his hatred against the wicked.
2 Maccabees 12:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And after he had put to flight and destroyed them, Judas removed the host toward Ephron, a strong city, wherein Lysias abode, and a great multitude of diverse nations, and the strong young men kept the walls, and defended them mightily: wherein also was great provision of engines and darts.
3 Maccabees 6:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of thy beloved, saying, Neither did their God deliver them.
3 Maccabees 6:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying,
3 Maccabees 6:38 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They were being enrolled from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epeiph, a period of forty days: the measures taken for their destruction lasted from the fifth of Epeiph till the seventh, that is, three days.
4 Maccabees 15:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Although beholding the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off her feelings through faith in God.
Wisdom of Solomon 1:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For God made not death: Neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.
Wisdom of Solomon 5:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction: Yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way: But as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.
Wisdom of Solomon 18:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So of thy people was accepted both the salvation of the righteous, And destruction of the enemies.
Wisdom of Sirach 9:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Sit not at all with another man’s wife, Nor sit down with her in thine arms, And spend not thy money with her at the wine; Lest thy heart incline unto her, And so through thy desire thou fall into destruction.
Wisdom of Sirach 16:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He pitied not the people of perdition, Who were taken away in their sins:
Wisdom of Sirach 20:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
A thief is better than a man that is accustomed to lie: But they both shall have destruction to heritage.
Wisdom of Sirach 29:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend, And let it not rust under a stone to be lost.
Wisdom of Sirach 31:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
If they be not sent from the most High in thy visitation, Set not thy heart upon them.
Wisdom of Sirach 36:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished: And he altered seasons and feasts.
Wisdom of Sirach 41:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
All that are of the earth shall turn to earth again: So the ungodly shall go from a curse to destruction.
Wisdom of Sirach 48:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Who broughtest kings to destruction, And honorable men from their bed:
Wisdom of Sirach 51:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou art my defender and helper, And hast preserved my body from destruction, And from the snare of the slanderous tongue, And from the lips that forge lies, And hast been my helper against mine adversaries:
Wisdom of Sirach 51:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
I will praise thy name continually, And will sing praise with thanksgiving; And so my prayer was heard:
Baruch 4:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
Baruch 4:25 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for thine enemy hath persecuted thee; but shortly thou shalt see his destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck.
Daniel 1:42 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 152 1:42 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
1 Enoch 5:4 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
But ye -ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord, But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words With your impure mouths against His greatness. Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G684, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 12 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Obadiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 2 usages, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
Philippians 2 usages, New Testament
2 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
2 Peter 5 usages, New Testament
Revelation 2 usages, New Testament
Judith 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 10 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 152 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 10 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G684 FAQ

What does apoleia (ἀπώλεια) mean?

Apoleia (Strong's G684) is a Greek word most simply glossed "destruction". apoleia (ap-o'-lei-a) n. 1. destruction, ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal) [from a presumed derivative of G622]

How many times is apoleia (ἀπώλεια) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 129 linked usages for Strong's G684 across 38 books.

Where can I study apoleia (ἀπώλεια) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G684 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate apoleia (ἀπώλεια)?

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 G684 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 70 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 30 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 10 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G684, with linked reader references where each row is available.