Help QuickNav Adv. Options
BES

BES

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's G3639 - olethros

Choose a new font size and typeface
ὄλεθρος
Transliteration
olethros (Key)
Pronunciation
ol'-eth-ros
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a primary ollumi (to destroy, a prolonged form)
mGNT
4x in 2 unique form(s) TR
4x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
13x in 3 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:168,681

Strong’s Definitions

ὄλεθρος ólethros, ol'-eth-ros; from a primary ὄλλυμι óllymi (to destroy; a prolonged form); ruin, i.e. death, punishment:—destruction.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G3639 in the following manner: destruction (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G3639 in the following manner: destruction (4x).

  1. ruin, destroy, death

    1. for the destruction of the flesh, said of the external ills and troubles by which the lusts of the flesh are subdued and destroyed

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὄλεθρος ólethros, ol'-eth-ros; from a primary ὄλλυμι óllymi (to destroy; a prolonged form); ruin, i.e. death, punishment:—destruction.
STRONGS G3639:
ὀλέθριος, ὀλέθριον (in secular authors also of three term., as in Wis. 18:15) (ὄλεθρος), from (Homer), Herodotus down, destructive, deadly: δίκην, 2 Thessalonians 1:9 Lachmann text
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Thessalonians
1:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3639 matches the Greek ὄλεθρος (olethros),
which occurs 13 times in 13 verses in the LXX Greek.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34 - And this [fn]thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to its destruction and its removal from the face of the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:26 - therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against you when ruin comes upon you:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 - yea when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:7 - Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; for they refuse to do justly.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31 - (LXX 32:31) even upon the extreme part of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations, he is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, saith the Lord.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:3 - (LXX 31:3) for there is a voice of men crying out of Oronaim, destruction and great ruin.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 - (LXX 31:8) And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:32 - (LXX 31:32) O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come upon thy fruits, and upon thy grape-gatherers.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:55 - (LXX 28:55) for the Lord has utterly destroyed Babylon, and cut off from her the great voice sounding as many waters: he has consigned her voice to destruction.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14 - And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Deblatha, in all their habitations: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16 - and if these three men should be in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be saved, but these only shall be saved, and the land shall be destroyed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:6 - Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them, and Machmas shall bury them: as for their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thorns shall be in their tents.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:13 - Neither shouldest thou have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet shouldest thou have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor shouldest thou have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
BES
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
BES
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan