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 · ἀπολέσαιNow when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”Matthew 5:29 · ἀπόληταιIf your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.Matthew 5:30 · ἀπόληταιIf your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.Matthew 8:25 · ἀπολλύμεθα.They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”Matthew 9:17 · ἀπόλλυνται.Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”Matthew 10:6 · ἀπολωλόταRather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.Matthew 10:28 · ἀπολέσαιDon’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.Matthew 10:39 · ἀπολέσει · ἀπολέσαςHe who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.Matthew 10:42 · ἀπολέσῃWhoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”Matthew 12:14 · ἀπολέσωσιν.¶But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.Matthew 15:24 · ἀπολωλόταBut he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”Matthew 16:25 · ἀπολέσει · ἀπολέσῃFor whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.Matthew 18:14 · ἀπόληταιEven so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.Matthew 21:41 · ἀπολέσειThey told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”Matthew 22:7 · ἀπώλεσενWhen the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.Matthew 26:52 · ἀπολοῦνται.Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.Matthew 27:20 · ἀπολέσωσιν.¶Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.Mark 1:24 · ἀπολέσαιsaying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”Mark 2:22 · ἀπόλλυταιNo one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”Mark 3:6 · ἀπολέσωσιν.¶The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.Mark 4:38 · ἀπολλύμεθα;He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”Mark 8:35 · ἀπολέσει · ἀπολέσειFor whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.Mark 9:22 · ἀπολέσῃOften it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.”Mark 9:41 · ἀπολέσῃFor whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.Mark 11:18 · ἀπολέσωσιν·The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.Mark 12:9 · ἀπολέσειWhat therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.Luke 4:34 · ἀπολέσαιsaying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”Luke 5:37 · ἀπολοῦνται·No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.Luke 6:9 · ἀπολέσαι;Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”Luke 8:24 · ἀπολλύμεθα.They came to him, and awoke him, saying, “Master, master, we are dying!” He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.Luke 9:24 · ἀπολέσει · ἀπολέσῃFor whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.Luke 9:25 · ἀπολέσαςFor what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?Luke 11:51 · ἀπολομένουfrom the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.Luke 13:3 · ἀπολεῖσθε.¶I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.Luke 13:5 · ἀπολεῖσθε.¶I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”Luke 13:33 · ἀπολέσθαιNevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.’Luke 15:4 · ἀπολέσας · ἀπολωλὸς“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?Luke 15:6 · ἀπολωλός.¶When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’Luke 15:8 · ἀπολέσῃOr what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?Luke 15:9 · ἀπώλεσα.¶When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’Luke 15:17 · ἀπόλλυμαι.But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!Luke 15:24 · ἀπολωλὼςfor this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.Luke 15:32 · ἀπολωλὼςBut it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”Luke 17:27 · ἀπώλεσενThey ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.Luke 17:29 · ἀπώλεσενbut in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.Luke 17:33 · ἀπολέσει · ἀπολέσῃWhoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.Luke 19:10 · ἀπολωλός.¶For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”Luke 19:47 · ἀπολέσαιHe was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.Luke 20:16 · ἀπολέσειHe will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”Luke 21:18 · ἀπόληται.And not 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 whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.John 6:12 · ἀπόληται.When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”John 6:27 · ἀπολλυμένηνDon’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”John 6:39 · ἀπολέσωThis is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.John 10:10 · ἀπολέσῃ·The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.John 10:28 · ἀπόλωνταιI give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.John 11:50 · ἀπόληται.nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”John 12:25 · ἀπολλύειHe who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.John 17:12 · ἀπώλετοWhile I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.John 18:9 · ἀπώλεσαthat the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”Acts 5:37 · ἀπώλετο,After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.Acts 27:34 · ἀπολεῖται.¶Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”Romans 2:12 · ἀπολοῦνται·For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.Romans 14:15 · ἀπόλλυεYet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.1 Corinthians 1:18 · ἀπολλυμένοιςFor the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.1 Corinthians 1:19 · ἀπολῶFor it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”1 Corinthians 8:11 · ἀπόλλυταιAnd through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.1 Corinthians 10:9 · ἀπώλλυντο.Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.1 Corinthians 10:10 · ἀπώλοντοNeither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.1 Corinthians 15:18 · ἀπώλοντο.Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.2 Corinthians 2:15 · ἀπολλυμένοις,For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;2 Corinthians 4:3 · ἀπολλυμένοιςEven if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;2 Corinthians 4:9 · ἀπολλύμενοι·pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;2 Thessalonians 2:10 · ἀπολλυμένοις,and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.Hebrews 1:11 · ἀπολοῦνται,They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does.James 1:11 · ἀπώλετο·For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.James 4:12 · ἀπολέσαι·Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?1 Peter 1:7 · ἀπολλυμένουthat the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—2 Peter 3:6 · ἀπώλετο.by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.2 Peter 3:9 · ἀπολέσθαιThe Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.2 John 1:8 · ἀπολέσητεWatch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.Jude 1:5 · ἀπώλεσεν.Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.Jude 1:11 · ἀπώλοντο.¶Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.Revelation 18:14 · ἀπώλετοThe fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.