ἀπ-όλλυμι and ἀπολλύω [in LXX for אָבַד, etc. (38 words in all)]. 1. Act., 1 to destroy utterly, destroy, kill: Mk 124, 922, al.; τ. ψνχήν, Mat.10:28, al.; 2 to lose utterly: Mat.10:42, al.; metaphorically, of failing to save, Jhn.6:39 18:9. 2. Mid., 1 to perish; (a) of things: Mat.5:29, Jhn.6:12, Heb.1:11 (LXX, al.; (b) of persons: Mat.8:26, al. Metaphorical, of loss of eternal life, Jhn.3:15-16 10:28 17:12, Rom.2:12, 1Co.8:11 15:18, 2Pe.3:9. In οἱ ἀπολλὺμενοι, the perishing, contrasted in 1Co.1:18, al., with οἱ σωζόμενοι, the "perfective" force of the verb, WH. " implies the completion of the process of destruction," is illustrated (see M, Pr., 114 f.; M, Th., ii, 2:10); 2 to be lost: Luk.15:4 21:18. Metaphorical, on the basis of the relation between shepherd and flock, of spiritual destitution and alienation from God: Mat.10:6 15:24, Luk.19:10 (MM, see word; DCG, i, 191 f., ii, 76, 554; Cremer, 451) (AS)
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G622 — ἀπολλύω
apolluō · to destroy · Greek
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Matthew 2:13 · ἀπολέσαιWhen 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 · ἀπόληταιIf 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 · ἀπόληταιAnd 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 · ἀπολλύμεθα.The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”Matthew 9:17 · ἀπόλλυνται.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 · ἀπολωλόταGo rather to the lost sheep of Israel.Matthew 10:28 · ἀπολέσαιDo 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 · ἀπολέσει · ἀπολέσαςWhoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.Matthew 10:42 · ἀπολέσῃAnd 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 · ἀπολέσωσιν.¶But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.Matthew 15:24 · ἀπολωλόταHe answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”Matthew 16:25 · ἀπολέσει · ἀπολέσῃFor whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.Matthew 18:14 · ἀπόληταιIn the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.Matthew 21:41 · ἀπολέσει“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 · ἀπώλεσενThe king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.Matthew 26:52 · ἀπολοῦνται.“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 · ἀπολέσωσιν.¶But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death.Mark 1:24 · ἀπολέσαι“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 · ἀπόλλυταιAnd 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 · ἀπολέσωσιν.¶At this, the Pharisees went out and began plotting with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.Mark 4:38 · ἀπολλύμεθα;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 · ἀπολέσει · ἀπολέσειFor 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 · ἀπολέσῃ“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 · ἀπολέσῃIndeed, 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 · ἀπολέσωσιν·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 · ἀπολέσειWhat then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.Luke 4:34 · ἀπολέσαι“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 · ἀπολοῦνται·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 · ἀπολέσαι;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 · ἀπολλύμεθα.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 · ἀπολέσει · ἀπολέσῃFor whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.Luke 9:25 · ἀπολέσαςWhat does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?Luke 11:51 · ἀπολομένουfrom 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 · ἀπολεῖσθε.¶No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.Luke 13:5 · ἀπολεῖσθε.¶No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”Luke 13:33 · ἀπολέσθαιNevertheless, 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 · ἀπολέσας · ἀπολωλὸς“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 · ἀπολωλός.¶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 · ἀπολέσῃOr 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 · ἀπώλεσα.¶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 · ἀπόλλυμαι.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 · ἀπολωλὼςFor this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.Luke 15:32 · ἀπολωλὼςBut 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 · ἀπώλεσενPeople 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 · ἀπώλεσενBut on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.Luke 17:33 · ἀπολέσει · ἀπολέσῃWhoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.Luke 19:10 · ἀπολωλός.¶For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”Luke 19:47 · ἀπολέσαιJesus 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 · ἀπολέσειHe 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 · ἀπόληται.Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.John 3:16 · ἀπόληταιFor 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 · ἀπόληται.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 · ἀπολλυμένηνDo 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 · ἀπολέσωAnd 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 · ἀπολέσῃ·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 · ἀπόλωνταιI give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.John 11:50 · ἀπόληται.You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”John 12:25 · ἀπολλύειWhoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.John 17:12 · ἀπώλετοWhile I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.John 18:9 · ἀπώλεσαThis was to fulfill the word He had spoken: “I have not lost one of those You have given Me.”Acts 5:37 · ἀπώλετο,After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the census and drew away people after him. He too perished, and all his followers were scattered.Acts 27:34 · ἀπολεῖται.¶So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”Romans 2:12 · ἀπολοῦνται·All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.Romans 14:15 · ἀπόλλυεIf your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.1 Corinthians 1:18 · ἀπολλυμένοιςFor the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.1 Corinthians 1:19 · ἀπολῶFor it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”1 Corinthians 8:11 · ἀπόλλυταιSo this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.1 Corinthians 10:9 · ἀπώλλυντο.We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.1 Corinthians 10:10 · ἀπώλοντοAnd do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.1 Corinthians 15:18 · ἀπώλοντο.Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.2 Corinthians 2:15 · ἀπολλυμένοις,For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.2 Corinthians 4:3 · ἀπολλυμένοιςAnd even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.2 Corinthians 4:9 · ἀπολλύμενοι·persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.2 Thessalonians 2:10 · ἀπολλυμένοις,and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.Hebrews 1:11 · ἀπολοῦνται,They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.James 1:11 · ἀπώλετο·For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.James 4:12 · ἀπολέσαι·There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?1 Peter 1:7 · ἀπολλυμένουso that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.2 Peter 3:6 · ἀπώλετο.through which the world of that time perished in the flood.2 Peter 3:9 · ἀπολέσθαιThe Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.2 John 1:8 · ἀπολέσητεWatch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.Jude 1:5 · ἀπώλεσεν.Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.Jude 1:11 · ἀπώλοντο.¶Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.Revelation 18:14 · ἀπώλετοAnd they will say: “The fruit of your soul’s desire has departed from you; all your luxury and splendor have vanished, never to be seen again.”