49 occurrences

'Perish' in the Bible

The LORD told Moses, "Go down and warn the people so they don't break through to look at the LORD, and many of them perish.

Verse ConceptsSeeing GodDeath Due To God's Presence

"You won't have power to resist your enemies. You'll perish among the nations and the land of your enemies will consume you.

Then the Israelis told Moses, "We're sure to die! We're all going to perish all of us!

"The LORD will send the curse among you, will confuse you, and will rebuke you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and perish quickly because of your evil deeds, since you will have forsaken him.

Verse ConceptsConfusionRebukeDisorganizationConsequences Of Forsaking Godcurses

know for certain that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations ahead of you. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap for you, a whip to your backs, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

Verse ConceptsWorldly SnaresNot Driving Them OutEyes HarmedMan TrappingTroubling Groups Of People

When you break the covenant of the LORD your God that he commanded you to obey by going to serve other gods and worship them, then the anger of the LORD will blaze against you, and you will perish quickly from this good land that he gave you."

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

"May all of your enemies perish like this, LORD! But may those who love him be like the ascending sun in its strength!" Then the land enjoyed quiet for 40 years.

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

As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him down, or his time will come to die, or he will go into battle and perish.

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableGod KillingGod Killing Individualsnatural Death

David told himself, "One of these days I'll perish by Saul's hand. There is nothing better for me to do than to escape to Philistine territory. Saul will give up searching for me anymore within the borders of Israel, so I'll escape from him."

Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleDespair

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 and gather all the Jewish people who are in Susa and fast for me. Don't eat or drink for three days, night or day. Both I and my young women will also fast in the same way, and then I'll go in to the king, even though it's against the law. And if I perish, I perish."

Verse ConceptsFasting, Examples OfPray For UsFastingFasting And Prayer

They perish by the breath of God; they are consumed by the storm that is his anger.

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 defeated between morning and evening; they perish forever and no one notices!

Verse ConceptsDeath

he'll perish forever, like his own excrement; those who saw him will ask, "Where is he?'

Verse Conceptsdung and manurePeople Passing AwayDefecationpoop

"But if they won't listen, they'll perish by the sword and die in their ignorance.

Verse ConceptsRepentance, Importance OfDangers Of Ignorance

When my enemies turn back, they will stumble and perish before you.

Verse ConceptsStumblingOvercoming EnemiesFalling Backwards

Indeed, the wicked will perish. The LORD's enemies will be consumed like flowers in the fields. They will vanish like smoke.

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSmokeDisappearanceThe Wicked Will PerishPurity Of New CreationsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

As for my enemies, with malice they said, "When will he die and memory of his name perish?"

Verse ConceptsGossipDesire For DeathNames Blotted OutFamily Death

Humanity, despite its conceit, does not understand that it will perish, just like the animals. A song of Asaph.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToRich, TheMen Similar To AnimalsAnimals Having A Soulhonour

Those far from you will perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessUnfaithfulness, To God

They will perish, but you will remain; and they all will become worn out, like a garment. You will change them like clothing, and they will pass away.

Verse ConceptsDecayClothing The EarthClean ClothesThings Wearing OutAbrasion

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

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering Israel

The city rejoices when the righteous prosper, and when the wicked perish there is jubilation.

Verse ConceptsProverbsShoutingDistinctives Of RighteousnessRejoicing Over Justice

A witness to lies will not go unpunished; the teller of falsehoods will perish.

Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeception, Forbidden By GodLiesLying

When the wicked rise to power, people hide themselves, but when the wicked perish, the righteous increase.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanHiding From Peoplehiding

Therefore, watch out! "As for me, I will once again do amazing things with this people, wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the insights of their discerning men will stay hidden."

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligencePhilosophyReasonShrewdnessThoughtWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsFalse WisdomWorldly WisdomDiscernment

The Egyptians are men, not God, and their horses are physical, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, anyone who assists will stumble, and the one who is helped will fall; and they will all perish together."

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

For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; those nations will be utterly ruined.

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleAnnihilation

Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "I'm about to put stumbling blocks in front of this people, and fathers and sons will stumble over them together. The neighbor and his friends will perish."

Verse ConceptsStumblingFathers And SonsFriends FailingGod HinderingHindrances

Why are we sitting here? Join together! Let's go to the fortified cities and perish there! For the LORD our God has condemned us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him.

Verse ConceptsPoison

Tell this to them: "The gods who didn't make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from these heavens."

Verse ConceptsGod, The CreatorLanguages

They're worthless, a work of mockery, and when the time of punishment comes, they'll perish.

Verse ConceptsVisitationUseless IdolsPunishmentsjoking

They're prophesying a lie to you in order to remove you far away from your land. I'll drive you out and you will perish.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentWicked ProphetsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

Then Kareah's son Jonathan spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah: "Let me go kill Nethaniah's son Ishmael, and no one will know. Why should he take your life? Otherwise all the Judeans who have gathered around you will be scattered, and the remnant of Judah will perish."

Verse ConceptsJews, ThePrivacySurvivors DestroyedInformation In Secret

How terrible for you, Moab! The people of Chemosh will perish. Indeed, your sons will be taken into captivity, and your daughters as well.

Verse ConceptsWoe To The Wicked

They're worthless, a work of mockery, and when the time of punishment comes, they'll perish.

Verse ConceptsUseless Idolsjoking

I'll tear down the wall that you've smeared with whitewash, level it to the ground, and tear out its foundation. Then it will collapse and you'll perish with it! Then you'll know that I am the LORD.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsDestruction Of The WickedFoundations Of NationsPlasterThings StrippedWhitewashingMoral Decay

At last they cried out to the LORD, "Please, LORD, do not let us perish because of this man's life, and do not hold us responsible for innocent blood, because you, LORD, have done what pleased you."

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Teaching OnInnocent BloodNot DyingDeath AvertedLife And Deathjonah

Ashkelon will see it happen and will be terrified; Gaza will tremble greatly. Ekron will be ashamed of her expectations, Gaza's king will perish, and Ashkelon will become uninhabited.

Verse ConceptsAgony, God's JudgmentdrynessHope, Of The WickedHope, Nature OfPessimismEmpty CitiesPhysical PainFear Will ComeWithout HopePleasurableness

So I said, "I will no longer be your shepherd. Let those who are about to die perish, and let what is about to be destroyed be destroyed. As for the survivors, let them devour each other."

Verse ConceptsInadequate ShepherdingRepulsive FoodHow Death Is Inevitablelosing a loved oneDyingLoss Of A Loved One

But Peter told him, "May your money perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's free gift with money!

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingPeter, The ApostlePurchasingMoneyThe Holy Spirit Described As God's GiftBuying God's GiftGod Giving FreelyMoney Blessings

For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.

Verse ConceptsLast JudgmentSin, God's Judgment OnAccountabilityUnder The LawWithout The LawJudging Others Actionslaw

Bible Theasaurus

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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