40 occurrences

'Perish' in the Bible

The Lord said to Moses, "Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the Lord to look, and many of them perish.

Verse ConceptsSeeing GodDeath Due To God's Presence

You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

The Israelites said to Moses, "We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!

Then Balaam looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: "Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end will be that he will perish."

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstPeople BeginningWise Proverbs

Ships will come from the coast of Kittim, and will afflict Asshur, and will afflict Eber, and he will also perish forever."

Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsThe NavyShips For Attacking

Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

Verse ConceptsInsectsHornetsBeesHiding From People

"The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

Verse ConceptsConfusionRebukeDisorganizationConsequences Of Forsaking Godcurses

He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.

Verse ConceptsBlightdiseasesDiseases, Kinds OfHeatMildewWasteFeverWar As God's JudgmentDiseasecancermoldpossibilities

I declare to you this very day that you will certainly perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord! But may those who love you shine 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

"Don't imagine that because you are part of the king's household you will be the one Jew who will escape. If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear from another source, while you and your father's household perish. It may very well be that you have achieved royal status for such a time as this!"

Verse ConceptsPurimAuthority Of PeopleRight Time For Peopledeliveranceliberationroyalty

"Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don't eat and don't drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!"

Verse ConceptsFasting, Examples OfPray For UsFastingFasting And Prayer

"Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, 'A man has been conceived!'

Verse ConceptsAbortionConceptionRegretting BirthOther Times

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

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodAnger Of God, Consequencesbreathingbreath

They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

Verse ConceptsDeath

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

Verse ConceptsPaths Of The WickedCaravans

He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfRootsDestruction Of PlantsWithout Hope

he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, 'Where is he?'

Verse Conceptsdung and manurePeople Passing AwayDefecationpoop

If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

Verse ConceptsAfflicted, Duty To Them

all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

Verse ConceptsDeath For Other ReasonsWork Ethicdust

Indeed, look at your enemies, O Lord! Indeed, look at how your enemies perish! All the evildoers are scattered!

Verse ConceptsScattering The PeoplesEnemies Of God

They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear.

Verse ConceptsDecayClothing The EarthClean ClothesThings Wearing OutAbrasion

When the wicked see this, they will worry; they will grind their teeth in frustration and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.

Verse ConceptsFutilityBitingDecayRest, SpiritualTeethGnashing Of TeethThe Fate Of The WickedFrustration

When the righteous do well, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there is joy.

Verse ConceptsProverbsShoutingDistinctives Of RighteousnessRejoicing Over Justice

A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will perish.

Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeception, Forbidden By GodLiesLying

A lying witness will perish, but the one who reports accurately speaks forever.

Verse ConceptsFalse Witnesses, Defined AsInjustice, Hated By GodWitnesses, Falsecredibility

When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanHiding From Peoplehiding

The Egyptians are mere humans, not God; their horses are made of flesh, not spirit. The Lord will strike with his hand; the one who helps will stumble and the one being helped will fall. Together they will perish.

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

Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated; your adversaries will be reduced to nothing and perish.

Verse ConceptsShame Will ComeUnnamed People Angry With Others

Indeed, nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish; such nations will be totally destroyed.

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleAnnihilation

I will see to it that all the Judean remnant that was determined to go and live in the land of Egypt will be destroyed. Here in the land of Egypt they will fall in battle or perish from starvation. People of every class will die in war or from starvation. They will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordFamine KillingMade A Horror

So my heart moans for Moab like a flute playing a funeral song. Yes, like a flute playing a funeral song, my heart moans for the people of Kir Heres. For the wealth they have gained will perish.

Verse ConceptsFlutesLamentingRiches, Nature OfMusical Instruments, types ofRiches, Description OfWailing

take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the Lord.'"

Verse ConceptsStrength Of God

Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.

Verse ConceptsDecaySeaShepherds, As OccupationsMourning In RegretDyingBirdsFishThe Sea

So I will set Moab on fire, and it will consume Kerioth's fortresses. Moab will perish in the heat of battle amid war cries and the blaring of the ram's horn.

Verse ConceptsFortressesTrumpetDestruction Of StrongholdsFire Of JudgementBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleDisorder Among The NationsDeath Of Other Groups

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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