114 occurrences

'Perish' in the Bible

The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

Verse ConceptsFrugality

Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.

Verse ConceptsSeeing GodDeath Due To God's Presence

You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.

The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!

Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of Yahweh, dies! Will we all perish?"

Verse ConceptsDanger When God Is Near

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

Verse ConceptsHeaven And EarthAnnihilationThings As Witnesses

Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

Verse ConceptsInsectsHornetsBeesHiding From People

He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: no man shall 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

It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

Verse ConceptsWarningIdolatry Consists OfDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other godsHinduism

As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

Verse ConceptsObeying God

Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.

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

and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

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

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, "A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

Verse ConceptsNationalismNomadsWanderersPeople MultiplyingFew Peoplesyriawandering

Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

Verse ConceptsConfusionRebukeDisorganizationConsequences Of Forsaking Godcurses

Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

Verse ConceptsBlightdiseasesDiseases, Kinds OfHeatMildewWasteFeverWar As God's JudgmentDiseasecancermoldpossibilities

and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

Verse ConceptsOilFamine ComingFamine Will Come

It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.

Verse Conceptsprospering

I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.

Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

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

Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn't perish alone in his iniquity.'"

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofUnfaithfulness, To GodNot AloneUnder The Ban

know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

Verse ConceptsWorldly SnaresNot Driving Them OutEyes HarmedMan TrappingTroubling Groups Of People

when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which 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 let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength." Then the land had rest forty years.

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

David said, "As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableGod KillingGod Killing Individualsnatural Death

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 escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."

Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleDespair

For the whole house of Ahab shall perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

Verse ConceptsUrinatingDeath Of All MalesKilling Whole Families

Letters were sent by couriers 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 on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Killing Israelites

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

Verse ConceptsPurimAuthority Of PeopleRight Time For Peopledeliveranceliberationroyalty

"Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against 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 bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss."

Verse ConceptsPeople Being SilentMaking SlavesKilling Israelitesrisk

In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,

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 memory of them perish from their seed.

Verse ConceptsMemorial

"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

Verse ConceptsAbortionConceptionRegretting BirthOther Times

By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodAnger Of God, Consequencesbreathingbreath

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

Verse ConceptsDeath

The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

Verse ConceptsPaths Of The WickedCaravans

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

Verse ConceptsHope, Of The WickedFalse HopesCharacter Of Wicked

His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

Verse ConceptsOblivionDeath Of The WickedForgetting Peopleremembrance

yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

Verse Conceptsdung and manurePeople Passing AwayDefecationpoop

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on 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 that the needy had no covering;

Verse ConceptsAfflicted, Duty To Them

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

Verse ConceptsDeath For Other ReasonsWork Ethicdust

But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

Verse ConceptsRepentance, Importance OfDangers Of Ignorance

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

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

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

Verse ConceptsStumblingOvercoming EnemiesFalling Backwards

But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish -- vanish like smoke.

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSmokeDisappearanceThe Wicked Will PerishPurity Of New CreationsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

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

Verse ConceptsGossipDesire For DeathNames Blotted OutFamily Death

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. A Psalm by Asaph.

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

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Verse ConceptsSmokeWicked Described AsMeltingWaxDriven From God's PresenceThe Lord Will Drive Them OutThe Presence Of GodsmokinganniversarySmoke Used Poetically

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessUnfaithfulness, To God

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

Verse ConceptsDisappointment

For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesEnemies Of God

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

Verse ConceptsDecayClothing The EarthClean ClothesThings Wearing OutAbrasion

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

Verse ConceptsFutilityBitingDecayRest, SpiritualTeethGnashing Of TeethThe Fate Of The WickedFrustration

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.

Verse ConceptsProverbsShoutingDistinctives Of RighteousnessRejoicing Over Justice

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeception, Forbidden By GodLiesLying

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanHiding From Peoplehiding

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Verse ConceptsBad LuckBeing Lost

The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

Verse ConceptsSpiritsThe Finality Of DeathDeath Is FinalLiveTrust In Relationships

It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

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

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden."

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligencePhilosophyReasonShrewdnessThoughtWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsFalse WisdomWorldly WisdomDiscernment

Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

Verse ConceptsShame Will ComeUnnamed People Angry With Others

For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleAnnihilation

"It shall happen at that day," says Yahweh, "that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder."

Verse ConceptsPessimismAstonishmentProphecy AbolishedLosing CouragePeople Appalled

Therefore thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish."

Verse ConceptsStumblingFathers And SonsFriends FailingGod HinderingHindrances

You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

Verse ConceptsGod, The CreatorLanguages

They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Verse ConceptsVisitationUseless IdolsPunishmentsjoking

Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Verse ConceptsAdvice, Rejecting Good AdviceadvisersPlansStudying The LawThe Work Of The WiseMan's CounselThe TongueWisdom And GuidanceBeing LostGod's Plan For Usrumors

for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentWicked ProphetsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.

Verse ConceptsWicked ProphetsGod Not SendingProphets Who Were Not Sent

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?

Verse ConceptsJews, ThePrivacySurvivors DestroyedInformation In Secret

The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesThose Who DestroyNo Escape

They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Verse ConceptsUseless Idolsjoking

Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

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

therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of God

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofRestraints From KillingBe Merciful!

I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will 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 won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

Verse ConceptsLimitations Of StrengthSpeedKeeping Oneself Aliveflying

I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end," says Yahweh.

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

So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won't perish."

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

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

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

Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

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

If 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.

Verse ConceptsBodily LimbsBlindness, SymbolicHell, Punishment OfSelf DenialSelf DisciplinePriorityEyes, GuardedProfitable ThingsPlucking OutCausing Others To StumbleEyes HarmedOther Right PartsThe Entrance Of SinUseful ThingsAbusive RelationshipsHellEyesInfidelityLust Of The Eyes

If 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.

Verse ConceptsBodily LimbsSending Things AwayCausing Others To StumbleCutting Off Hands And FeetEvil For The Right HandThe Entrance Of SinUseful ThingsWorry And StressInfidelityLosing Someonecutting

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

Verse ConceptsUrgencyRepentanceRepent Lest You Die

I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way."

Verse ConceptsRepent Lest You Die

Nevertheless 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.'

Verse ConceptsProphets KilledTodayhumortomorrow

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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