G3639 – olethros – ὄλεθρος – to ruin
- Strong’s ID:
- G3639
- Greek Word:
- ὄλεθρος
- Transliteration:
- olethros
- Pronunciation:
- ol’-eth-ros
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Etymology:
- from a primary ολλυμι ollumi (to destroy; a prolonged form)
- Usage Count:
- 4
- Search:
- Find “olethros” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
to ruin
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from a primary ολλυμι ollumi (to destroy; a prolonged form); ruin, i.e. death, punishment:—destruction.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) ruin, destroy, death
1a) for the destruction of the flesh, said of the external ills and troubles by which the lusts of the flesh are subdued and destroyed
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.