G622 – apollumi – ἀπόλλυμι – to destroy
- Strong’s ID:
- G622
- Greek Word:
- ἀπόλλυμι
- Transliteration:
- apollymi / apollumi
- Pronunciation:
- ap-ol’-loo-mee
- Part of Speech:
- verb
- Etymology:
- from G575 and the base of G3639
- Usage Count:
- 92
- Search:
- Find “apollumi” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
to destroy
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G575 and the base of G3639; to destroy fully (reflexively, to perish, or lose), literally or figuratively:—destroy, die, lose, mar, perish.
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) to destroy
1a) to put out of the way entirely, abolish, put an end to ruin
1b) render useless
1c) to kill
1d) to declare that one must be put to death
1e) metaphorically to devote or give over to eternal misery in hell
1f) to perish, to be lost, ruined, destroyed
2) to destroy
2a) to lose
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.