27 occurrences in 12 translations

'Destroyed' in the Bible

And thou hast said: Mountains of Israel, Hear ye a word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah To the mountains, and to the hills, To the streams, and to the valleys, Lo, I, I am bringing in against you a sword, And I have destroyed your high places.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's Judgment

Everywhere you live, the cities will become waste and the high places will become deserted, so that your altars may bear their guilt and become deserted, your idols may be broken and destroyed, your incense altars [for sun-worship] may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.

Verse ConceptsAbolish, Evil ThingsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of Satan's WorksUseless LabourOne's DeedsAbandoning Idols

The inhabited cities will be destroyed, and the land will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Verse ConceptsDestructionDestruction Of Cities

I will tear down the wall you plastered with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsDestruction Of The WickedFoundations Of NationsPlasterThings StrippedWhitewashingMoral Decay

And the prophet, when he is enticed, and hath spoken a word -- I, Jehovah, I have enticed that prophet, and have stretched out My hand against him, and have destroyed him from the midst of My people Israel.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutGod's HandGod DeceivingGod OpposingGod's Hands Stretched Out

“Moreover, you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to Me, and you destroyed them as sacrifices [to your man-made gods]. Were your gross immoralities so small a matter?

Verse ConceptsIdol WorshipUnimportant Things

And she saw that she was waiting [in vain]; her hope was destroyed, and she took one from her cubs, [and] she made him a fierce lion.

Verse ConceptsWithout Hope

He devastated their strongholdsand destroyed their cities.The land and everything in it shudderedat the sound of his roaring.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of StrongholdsCities Under AttackPeople Appalled

Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfLongsuffering Of GodDying In The Wilderness

I sought for a man among them to build the wall and stand in the breach in my presence on behalf of the land so that it won't be destroyed, but I found no one,

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges

So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the sovereign Lord."

Verse ConceptsMan's WaysFire Of God's AngerGod Makes Evil Rebound

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am stretching out My hand against the Philistines, And I have cut off the Cherethim, And destroyed the remnant of the haven of the sea,

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodGod KillingGod Will Kill The Peoples

"Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, now that she has been destroyed,'

And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsTowersWallsEmpty CitiesThings Stripped

And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

Verse ConceptsMarinersFearing Other People

And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

Verse ConceptsWailingUnique Nations

Since your vast business dealings filled you with violent intent from top to bottom, you sinned, so I cast you away as defiled from the mountain of God. I destroyed you, you guardian cherub, from the midst of the fiery stones.

Verse ConceptsProfanityTradeUnity, God's Goal OfPursuing ViolenceAngelsJudgment Of DemonsJudgment Of Fallen Angels

And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceFire Of JudgementGroups Helping

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And -- I have destroyed idols, And caused vain things to cease from Noph, And a prince of the land of Egypt there is no more, And I give fear in the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Satan's WorksFear Will ComeAbandoning IdolsNo King

By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordThe Proud Will Be Abased

And I have destroyed all her beasts, From beside many waters, And trouble them not doth a foot of man any more, Yea, the hoofs of beasts trouble them not.

Verse ConceptsBoth Men And Animals Affected

On the fifth day of the tenth month of the twelfth year of our captivity, a fugitive who had escaped from Jerusalem came and informed me, "The city has been destroyed."

Verse ConceptsAttackingThe Fifth Day Of The WeekMonth 10Destruction Of JerusalemEscaping EvilDay 5

Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheEdenInhabitation

Then the nations that remain around you will know that I, Yahweh, have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken and I will do it.

Verse ConceptsGod, The LordLiteral Plantingrebuilding

And he said to me, "Son of man, these bones [are] all of the house of Israel; look! [they are] saying, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is destroyed; {we are cut off as far as we are concerned}.'

Verse ConceptsdrynessDisappointmentsHope, Nature OfHope, Results Of Its AbsencePessimismFeelings Of Rejection By GodThe Finality Of DeathBonesDeath Is FinalWithout HopeValley Of Dry Bones

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was destroyed, in this day exactly, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodNew Year, TheGod's HandDay 10God's Hands On PeopleBeginning Of PeriodsCapturing CitiesTime Of Yearanniversary

Whenever they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they were defiling My holy name by the detestable acts they committed. So I destroyed them in My anger.

Verse ConceptsDoorpostsProfaning God's NameDanger When God Is Near

Bible Theasaurus

Demolish (33 instances)
Destroy (457 instances)
Destroyed (529 instances)
Ruined (110 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀπόλλυμι 
Apollumi 
perish , destroy , lose , be lost , lost ,
Usage: 37

διαφθείρω 
Diaphtheiro 
Usage: 5

ἐξολοθρεύω 
Exolothreuo 
Usage: 1

καθαιρέω 
Kathaireo 
Usage: 8

καταλύω 
Kataluo 
Usage: 12

καταργέω 
Katargeo 
destroy , do away , abolish , cumber , loose , cease , fall , deliver , s
Usage: 25

λύω 
Luo 
Usage: 28

ὀλοθρεύω 
Olothreuo 
Usage: 1

πορθέω 
Portheo 
Usage: 3

φθείρω 
Phtheiro 
Usage: 8

φθορά 
Phthora 
Usage: 9

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