200 occurrences in 12 translations

'Perish' in the Bible

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also cause the righteous to perish with the wicked?

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfGod KillingLack Of DiscriminationGod Kills

And as the dawn arose, the angels urged Lot, saying, Up, take thy wife and thy two daughters who are present, lest thou perish in the iniquity of the city.

Verse ConceptsDawnIniquity, Punishment ForEvil AssociationsDaybreakDestruction Of CitiesAt DaybreakGod UrgingAngels Providing Protection

And it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish.

Verse ConceptsEscapingFuturedoubt, results ofExamples Of EscapingHesitationLooking BackwardEscaping To MountainsOutside The CityLooking Back

And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

Verse ConceptsFrugality

Why should we die here in front of you—both us and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. Then we with our land will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed so that we can live and not die, and so that the land won’t become desolate.”

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenPossibility Of DeathLiteral PlantingGroups Of Slaves

And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

Verse ConceptsSeeing GodDeath Due To God's Presence

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

Verse ConceptsEyes HarmedFor The Sake Of ThingsPeople Freeing Slaves

And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

And he spoke to the assembly, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye perish in all their sins.

Verse ConceptsTentsFellowship With WickedEvil AssociationsSeparation From Evil PeopleNot TouchingHaving No Dealings

and they go down, they, and all that they have, alive to Sheol, and the earth closeth over them, and they perish from the midst of the assembly;

Verse ConceptsSheolWhilst Alive

And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.

Anyone who comes near the Lord’s tabernacle will die. Will we all perish?”

Verse ConceptsDanger When God Is Near

And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstPeople BeginningWise Proverbs

And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsThe NavyShips For Attacking

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

Verse ConceptsHeaven And EarthAnnihilationThings As Witnesses

and repayeth them that hate him each to his face, to cause them to perish: he delayeth not with him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

Verse ConceptsHatredHell, As An ExperienceGod Not DelayingGod Will RequiteHating Godhaters

The Lord your God will also send the hornet against them until all the survivors and those hiding from you perish.

Verse ConceptsInsectsHornetsBeesHiding From People

He will deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven; no man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To IsraelInvincibilityAble To StandForgetting PeopleNames Blotted OutGentile RulersThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

Verse ConceptsWarningIdolatry Consists OfDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other godsHinduism

As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.

Verse ConceptsObeying God

Know then this day, that Jehovah thy God is he that goeth over before thee, a consuming fire; he will destroy them, and he will cast them down before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them and cause them to perish quickly, as Jehovah hath said unto thee.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAssurance in the life of faithGod DestroyingCrossing Into The Promised Landtoughness

And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalRainUnfruitfulnessWeather, As God's JudgmentElements, Control OfDispleasureDivine Power Over Nature

And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

Verse ConceptsNationalismNomadsWanderersPeople MultiplyingFew Peoplesyriawandering

The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

Verse ConceptsConfusionRebukeDisorganizationConsequences Of Forsaking Godcurses

The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

Verse ConceptsBlightdiseasesDiseases, Kinds OfHeatMildewWasteFeverWar As God's JudgmentDiseasecancermoldpossibilities

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.

Verse ConceptsOilFamine ComingFamine Will Come

Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so He will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be deported from the land you are entering to possess.

Verse Conceptsprospering

I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!

Verse ConceptsSadnessCrossing Into The Promised LandGod Will Cause DefeatWhy Does God Do This?

Did not Achan the son of Zerah act unfaithfully in the things under the ban, and wrath fall on all the congregation of Israel? And that man did not perish alone in his iniquity.’”

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofUnfaithfulness, To GodNot AloneUnder The Ban

Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

Verse ConceptsWorldly SnaresNot Driving Them OutEyes HarmedMan TrappingTroubling Groups Of People

When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodSyncretismBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsBreaking The CovenantGod Will Be AngryGod Will Kill His PeopleHinduism

So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

Verse ConceptsDawnDeborahNoonThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsEnemies Of GodTime Of PeaceLove And StrengthSunPeace And Strengthcrusades

“He guards the feet of His godly (faithful) ones,But the wicked ones are silenced and perish in darkness;For a man shall not prevail by might.

Verse ConceptsAbilityFeetdefence, divineGod, The ProviderGuardsSaintsSilenceLimitations Of StrengthThe Outer DarknessFeet SecureOuter Darknesstoughness

But if ye do wickedly, ye shall perish, both ye and your king.

Verse ConceptsThreateningsDestruction Of CountriesPersistence

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan, who has brought about this great victory in Israel, be put to death? Far from it! As the Lord lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people rescued Jonathan and he was not put to death.

Verse ConceptsHairsHeadsPublic OpinionFar Be It!Hairs ProtectedIndividuals Saving Others

David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableGod KillingGod Killing Individualsnatural Death

And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleDespair

For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:

Verse ConceptsUrinatingDeath Of All MalesKilling Whole Families

And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Killing Israelites

Indeed, if you are silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. Who knows but that you were brought to the kingdom for a time like this?"

Verse ConceptsPurimAuthority Of PeopleRight Time For Peopledeliveranceliberationroyalty

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Examples OfPray For UsFastingFasting And Prayer

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

Verse ConceptsPeople Being SilentMaking SlavesKilling Israelitesrisk

Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

Verse ConceptsPurimRules About Booty

And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.

Verse ConceptsMemorial

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Verse ConceptsAbortionConceptionRegretting BirthOther Times

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodAnger Of God, Consequencesbreathingbreath

how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?

Verse ConceptsFoundationsInsectsProperty, HousesMan, Insignificance OfMothsMetaphorical HousesCreatures From Dust

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

Verse ConceptsDeath

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

Verse ConceptsPaths Of The WickedCaravans

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedFalse HopesCharacter Of Wicked

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

Verse ConceptsOblivionDeath Of The WickedForgetting Peopleremembrance

He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfRootsDestruction Of PlantsWithout Hope

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Verse Conceptsdung and manurePeople Passing AwayDefecationpoop

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Verse ConceptsWidowsPeople BlessingRejoicing Over Justice

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

Verse ConceptsAfflicted, Duty To Them

All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

Verse ConceptsDeath For Other ReasonsWork Ethicdust

But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

Verse ConceptsRepentance, Importance OfDangers Of Ignorance

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Verse ConceptsKissing ChristKissingAnger Of JesusKissesBlessed Through GodSpeed Of God's AngerTrustPurity

When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

Verse ConceptsStumblingOvercoming EnemiesFalling Backwards

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSmokeDisappearanceThe Wicked Will PerishPurity Of New CreationsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

Let them be ashamed; let them perish who are {my adversaries}. Let [them] wrap themselves with scorn and disgrace who seek my harm.

Verse ConceptsBlamedisgraceHurt

For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessUnfaithfulness, To God

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

Verse ConceptsDisappointment

For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesEnemies Of God

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

Verse ConceptsDecayClothing The EarthClean ClothesThings Wearing OutAbrasion

Let sinners perish completely from the earth, and [the] wicked {not remain alive}. Bless Yahweh, O my soul. Praise Yah.

Verse ConceptsPraiseSinnersPeople Passing AwayBless The Lord!

to cause their children to perish among the nations and be scattered among many lands.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering Israel

The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Verse ConceptsFutilityBitingDecayRest, SpiritualTeethGnashing Of TeethThe Fate Of The WickedFrustration

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristFolly, Effects OfComplacencyUnderestimationDeath For Other Reasonsapostasy

When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

Verse ConceptsProverbsShoutingDistinctives Of RighteousnessRejoicing Over Justice

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeception, Forbidden By GodLiesLying

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanHiding From Peoplehiding

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Verse ConceptsBad LuckBeing Lost

But both rebels and sinners will be destroyed,and those who abandon the Lord will perish.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessForsaking GodRejection Of GodRenunciationSinnersConsequences Of Forsaking God

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

Verse ConceptsSpiritsThe Finality Of DeathDeath Is FinalLiveTrust In Relationships

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelTrumpetWorship, Places OfOutcastsHow To Worship GodTrumpets At The End

Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligencePhilosophyReasonShrewdnessThoughtWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsFalse WisdomWorldly WisdomDiscernment

Egyptians are men, not God;their horses are flesh, not spirit.When the Lord raises His hand to strike,the helper will stumbleand the one who is helped will fall;both will perish together.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritAliancesStumblingTrusting In Man, Warnings AgainstGod's HandLimitations Of The BodyGod's Hands Stretched OutDanger From MenNatural Disasters

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Choke (6 instances)
Decease (2 instances)
Expire (16 instances)
Perish (200 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
H6
אבד 
'abad 
Usage: 184

H7
אבד 
'abad (Aramaic) 
to destroy , to perish
Usage: 7

H8
אבד 
'obed 
Usage: 2

גּוע 
Gava` 
die , give up the ghost , dead , perish , dead
Usage: 24

דּמה 
Damah 
Usage: 15

סוּף 
Cuwph 
Usage: 9

ספה 
Caphah 
Usage: 20

פּרע 
Para` 
Usage: 16

שׁמד 
Shamad 
Usage: 90

ἀποθνήσκω 
Apothnesko 
die , be dead , be at the point of death +9 , perish , lie a dying , be slain + , vr dead
Usage: 93

ἀπόλλυμι 
Apollumi 
perish , destroy , lose , be lost , lost ,
Usage: 37

ἀπώλεια 
Apoleia 
Usage: 18

ἀφανίζω 
Aphanizo 
Usage: 2

διαφθείρω 
Diaphtheiro 
Usage: 5

καταφθείρω 
Katphtheiro 
Usage: 2

συναπόλλυμι 
sunapollumi 
perish with
Usage: 1

φθορά 
Phthora 
Usage: 9

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