91 occurrences

'Perish' in the Bible

Then the food shall be as a deposit for the land for the seven years of the famine that will be in the land of Egypt, that the land will not perish on account of the famine."

Verse ConceptsFrugality

And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you.

And the {Israelites} said to Moses, saying, "Look! We will die! We will be destroyed! All of us will perish!

I call to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you [are] crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; {you will not live long on it}, but you will be completely destroyed.

Verse ConceptsHeaven And EarthAnnihilationThings As Witnesses

And it will happen [that] if you indeed forget Yahweh your God and you go after other gods and you serve them and you bow down before them, I warn you today that you will surely perish.

Verse ConceptsWarningIdolatry Consists OfDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other godsHinduism

As [with] the nations that Yahweh [is] destroying {before you}, so you shall perish because you would not obey the voice of Yahweh your God.

Verse ConceptsObeying God

And [then] {the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you}, and he will shut up the heavens, and there shall not be rain, and [so] the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land that Yahweh [is] giving to you.

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

"Yahweh will send upon you the curse, the panic, and the threat {in everything that you undertake}, {until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly} {because of} the evil of your deeds in that you have forsaken me.

Verse ConceptsConfusionRebukeDisorganizationConsequences Of Forsaking Godcurses

Yahweh will afflict you with the wasting diseases and with the fever and with the inflammation and with the scorching heat and with the sword and with the blight and with the mildew, and they shall pursue you {until you perish}.

Verse ConceptsBlightdiseasesDiseases, Kinds OfHeatMildewWasteFeverWar As God's JudgmentDiseasecancermoldpossibilities

I declare to you {today} that you will certainly perish; {you will not extend your time} on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there to take possession of it.

Did not Achan son of Zerah commit treachery with devoted things, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? {And he alone} did not perish because of his iniquity.'"

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofUnfaithfulness, To GodNot AloneUnder The Ban

know for certain that Yahweh your God {will not continue to drive out} these nations from before you; they will be for you a snare and a trap, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that Yahweh your God has given to you.

Verse ConceptsWorldly SnaresNot Driving Them OutEyes HarmedMan TrappingTroubling Groups Of People

If you transgress the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded [to] you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, {Yahweh's anger will be kindled} against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you."

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

So may all your enemies perish, O Yahweh, but those who love him are like the rising sun at its brightest." And the land had rest for forty years.

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

And David said, "{As Yahweh lives}, {certainly} Yahweh will strike him, or his day will come and he will die, or he will go down in the battle and {perish}.

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableGod KillingGod Killing Individualsnatural Death

Then David {thought to himself}, "Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me but [that] I must certainly escape to the land of [the] Philistines. Then Saul will desist from searching for me further in all of the territories of Israel, and so I will escape from his hand."

Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleDespair

All of the house of Ahab will perish, and I shall cut off {all males} from Ahab, both bond and free.

Verse ConceptsUrinatingDeath Of All MalesKilling Whole Families

For if indeed you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and the family of your father will perish. Who knows? [Perhaps] you have come to a royal position for a time such as this."

Verse ConceptsPurimAuthority Of PeopleRight Time For Peopledeliveranceliberationroyalty

"Go, gather all the Jews that are found in Susa and fast for me; do not eat or drink [for] three days, both night and day. I and my young girls will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king, which [is] not according to the law; if I perish, I perish.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Examples OfPray For UsFastingFasting And Prayer

"Let [the] day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.'

Verse ConceptsAbortionConceptionRegretting BirthOther Times

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they come to an end.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodAnger Of God, Consequencesbreathingbreath

{Between morning and evening} they are destroyed; without [anyone] regarding [it] they perish forever.

Verse ConceptsDeath

The paths of their way wind [around]; they go up into the wasteland, and they perish.

Verse ConceptsPaths Of The WickedCaravans

So [are] the paths of all who forget God; and [the] hope of [the] godless will perish,

Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedFalse HopesCharacter Of Wicked

he will perish forever like his dung; [those who] have seen him will say, 'Where [is] he?'

Verse Conceptsdung and manurePeople Passing AwayDefecationpoop

all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust.

Verse ConceptsDeath For Other ReasonsWork Ethicdust

But if they do not listen, they perish by [the] sword, and they pass away without knowledge.

Verse ConceptsRepentance, Importance OfDangers Of Ignorance

Kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish [on the] way, for his anger burns quickly. Blessed are all [who] take refuge in him.

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

When my enemies turn back, they will stumble and perish because of your presence.

Verse ConceptsStumblingOvercoming EnemiesFalling Backwards

But [the] wicked will perish, and the enemies of Yahweh [will be] like [the] splendor of [the] pastures. They vanish; in smoke they vanish.

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSmokeDisappearanceThe Wicked Will PerishPurity Of New CreationsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

My enemies speak evil about me, "When will he die and his name perish?"

Verse ConceptsGossipDesire For DeathNames Blotted OutFamily Death

Humankind in [its] pomp, but does not understand, is like the beasts [that] perish.

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

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

[It is] burned with fire, cut down. They perish at the rebuke of your face.

Verse ConceptsRebukeVinesFelling TreesHeavenly FacesBurning PlantsGod Requite Them!

Let them be ashamed and terrified forever, and let them be humiliated and perish

Verse ConceptsDisappointment

For behold, your enemies, O Yahweh, for behold, your enemies will perish. All [the] workers of evil will be scattered.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesEnemies Of God

They will perish, but you will endure. And like a garment they will all wear out, you will replace them like clothing, and they will be set aside.

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!

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will perish.

Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeception, Forbidden By GodLiesLying

But [the] destruction [of] rebels and sinners [shall be] together, and those who forsake Yahweh will perish.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessForsaking GodRejection Of GodRenunciationSinnersConsequences Of Forsaking God

therefore look, I am again doing something spectacular and a spectacle with this spectacular people. And the wisdom of its wise men shall perish, and the discernment of its discerning ones shall keep itself hidden."

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligencePhilosophyReasonShrewdnessThoughtWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsFalse WisdomWorldly WisdomDiscernment

For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you shall perish, and the nations shall be utterly devastated.

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleAnnihilation

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh: "Look, I [am] about to put before this people stumbling blocks, and they will stumble against them, fathers and children together, neighbor and his friend will perish."

Verse ConceptsStumblingFathers And SonsFriends FailingGod HinderingHindrances

Why [are] we sitting? Gather, and let us go into the fortified cities, and let us perish there, for Yahweh our God has caused us to perish, and has provided drink for us, water of poison, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsPoison

"{Thus} you shall say to them, 'Gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.

Verse ConceptsGod, The CreatorLanguages

They [are] vanity, a work of mockery, at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

Verse ConceptsVisitationUseless IdolsPunishmentsjoking

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophecy in my name though I have not sent them, yet they [are] saying, "Sword and famine will not be in this land." "By the sword and by the famine those prophets will perish.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Characteristics OfFamine KillingNo More FamineFalse Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

"They will die by diseases, they will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will perish by the sword and they will perish by the famine. And their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air, and for the wild animals of the earth."

Verse ConceptsDead bodiesdirtUnburied BodiesAnimals Eating PeopleDefecationNearness Of DeathEating CorpsesNo BurialsWild Animals DevouringFamine KillingDeath Looms NearNot MourningLack Of A Proper Burial

And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, until they perish from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.'"

Verse ConceptsPlaguesFamine Coming From GodGod Gave The LandGod Will Kill His People

And flight will perish from the shepherds, and escape from the leaders of the flock.

Verse ConceptsNo Escapeimpossible

For they [are] prophesying to you a lie, so that you [will be] removed from your land, and I will drive you away, and you will perish.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentWicked ProphetsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

For I have not sent them," {declares} Yahweh, "but they [are] prophesying in my name {falsely}, so that I will drive them away. And you will perish--you and the prophets who are prophesying to you."

Verse ConceptsWicked ProphetsGod Not SendingProphets Who Were Not Sent

Then Johanan the son of Kareah said to Gedaliah in secrecy at Mizpah, {saying}, "Please let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and {nobody} will know. Why should he kill you, so that all of Judah who are gathered to you will be scattered, and the remnant of Judah will perish?"

Verse ConceptsJews, ThePrivacySurvivors DestroyedInformation In Secret

And I will take [away] the remnant of Judah {who are determined} to come [to] the land of Egypt to dwell as aliens there, and everyone will perish. They will fall in the land of Egypt by the sword; they will perish by the famine, from [the] smallest to [the] greatest. By the sword and by the famine they will die and become as a curse, as a horror, and as a curse, and as a disgrace.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordFamine KillingMade A Horror

Look, I [am] going to watch over them for harm and not for good, and all people of Judah who [are] in the land of Egypt will perish by the sword and by the famine until their perishing.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordFamine KillingGod Will Bring Harm

{Therefore} her young men will fall in her public squares, and all {the soldiers} will perish in that day," {declares} Yahweh of hosts.

{Therefore} her young men will fall in her public squares, and all {her soldiers} will perish on that day," {declares} Yahweh.

Flee from the midst of Babylon and save each one his life. You must not perish because of her guilt. For this [is the] time of vengeance for Yahweh, he [will] repay her what is deserved.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonRetributionWagesEvil AssociationsGod Executes VengeanceThe judgment of babylonRevenge

They [are] worthless, a work of mockery. At the time of their punishment, they will perish.

Verse ConceptsUseless Idolsjoking

A third of you will die because of the plague, and because of the famine they will perish in the midst of you, and a third will fall through the sword around you, and a third I will scatter to every direction of the wind, and I will draw [the] sword behind them.

Verse ConceptsPlaguesRemnantPestilenceOne ThirdThings StrippedFamine Killing

Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor will be upon rumor. And they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from [the] priest and counsel from [the] elders.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, SpiritualPriests, Function In Ot TimesProphets, Role OfRumoursVisionsDisastersCataclysmSpiritual DestitutionNo VisionsProphecy Abolishedrumors

And I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod and the one who takes hold of the scepter of Ashkelon. I will also turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish," says the Lord Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsSurvivors DestroyedGod's HandGod KillingGod's Hands In OppositionGod Will Kill The PeoplesGod Killing Individuals

Flight will perish from [the] swift and [the] strong person will not muster his strength and [the] warrior will not save his life.

Verse ConceptsLimitations Of StrengthSpeedKeeping Oneself Aliveflying

I will ruin the winter house as well as the summer house, and the houses of ivory will perish and the great houses shall come to an end," {declares} Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsAdornment, Of BuildingsArtHousesIvoryProperty, HousesSummerDestruction Of HousesSummer And WinterHouses Under Attack

And the captain of the ship approached him and said to him, "Why are you {sound asleep}? Get up! Call on your god! Perhaps [your] god will take notice of us and we won't perish!"

Verse ConceptsCaptainsNot DyingDeath AvertedWill God Pay Attention?Serving One's Own Gods

So they cried out to Yahweh, and they said, "O Yahweh! Please do not let us perish because of this man's life, and {do not make us guilty of innocent blood}, because you, O Yahweh, did what you wanted."

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Teaching OnInnocent BloodNot DyingDeath AvertedLife And Deathjonah

Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn {from his blazing anger} {so that} we will not perish."

Verse ConceptsNot DyingGod Changing His MindDeath AvertedLet Not God Be AngryAnger And Forgivenessjonah

Ashkelon will see and will be afraid, and Gaza will writhe exceedingly, and Ekron [also], because its hope is ruined. And the king from Gaza will perish, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

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

{And then} in all the land," {declares} Yahweh, "{two thirds} will be cut off and perish, and one third will be left alive in it.

Verse ConceptsSmall RemnantsOne ThirdDeath Of Other GroupsSurvivalDying

No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as well!

Verse ConceptsUrgencyRepentanceRepent Lest You Die

No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!"

Verse ConceptsRepent Lest You Die

Nevertheless, it is necessary [for] me to be on the way today and tomorrow and on the next [day], because it is not possible [for] a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsProphets KilledTodayhumortomorrow

Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish."

Verse ConceptsLord's SupperSubstitutionThe Effect Of Christ's DeathNot Understanding Other ThingsUseful ThingsVicarious SubstitutionDyingorganization

'Look, you scoffers, and be astonished and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work that you would never believe [even] if someone were to tell [it] to you.'"

Verse ConceptsPrejudiceScoffingDespisersScoffersDoubting GodWhat God Doesaccomplishmentmockers

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

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

they will perish, but you continue, and they will all become old like a garment,

Verse ConceptsCreation Showing God's NatureChange And Growth

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
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