24 occurrences in 12 translations

'Perishing' in the Bible

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we’re perishing! We’re lost; we’re all lost!

And -- ships are from the side of Chittim, And they have humbled Asshur, And they have humbled Eber, And it also for ever is perishing.'

Now the {length of time} that we had traveled from Kadesh Barnea until [the time when] we crossed the wadi of Zered [was] thirty-eight years, until the perishing of all of that generation; [that is], the men of war from the midst of the camp as Yahweh had sworn to them.

And thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean is my father! and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becometh there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous;

“The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed, perishing quickly because of the evil of your deeds, because you have turned away from Me.

An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.

The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

If I see any perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

“Remove Your plague from me;Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing.

I [am] afflicted and perishing from [my] youth. I bear your terrors. I am distraught.

When good [is with] the righteous, [the] city rejoices, and with the perishing of the wicked, jubilation.

With [the] rising of the wicked, humankind will be hidden, and with their perishing, [the] righteous will multiply.

The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging himself in his wrong.

Furthermore, at that time, a great trumpet will be sounded, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and those who had been expelled to the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on his holy mountain at Jerusalem.

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.

A perishing flock hath My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, To the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place.

“I weep for these things;My eyes overflow with tears,Because a comforter,One who could restore my soul, is far away from me.My children are desolate and perishing,For the enemy has prevailed.”

Those who feasted on delicaciesAre perishing in the streets;Those reared in purple [as nobles]Embrace ash heaps.

"You should not have gloated over your brother, on the day of his calamity. You should not have rejoiced when the descendants of Judah were perishing. You should not have boasted when they were in distress.

For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

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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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