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Lexicon :: Strong's G3639 - olethros

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ὄλεθρος
Transliteration
olethros (Key)
Pronunciation
ol'-eth-ros
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a primary ollumi (to destroy, a prolonged form)
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.
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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.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34 -

This was the sin that caused the house of Jeroboam to be cut off and obliterated from the face of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:26 -

“I, in turn, will laugh at your calamity.

I will mock when terror strikes you,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 -

“when terror strikes you like a storm

and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,

when trouble and stress overcome you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:7 -

The violence of the wicked sweeps them away

because they refuse to act justly.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31 -

“The tumult reaches to the ends of the earth

because the LORD brings a case against the nations.

He enters into judgment with all humanity.

As for the wicked, he hands them over to the sword —

this is the LORD’s declaration.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:3 -

A voice cries out from Horonaim,

“devastation and a crushing blow! ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 -

The destroyer will move against every town;

not one town will escape.

The valley will perish,

and the plain will be annihilated,

as the LORD has said.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:32 -

I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah,

with more than the weeping for Jazer.

Your tendrils have extended to the sea;

they have reached to the sea and to Jazer.[fn]

The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruit and grape harvest.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:55 -

For the LORD is going to devastate Babylon;

he will silence her mighty voice.

Their waves roar like a huge torrent;

the tumult of their voice resounds,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14 -

“I will stretch out my hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Riblah.[fn] Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16 -

“Even if these three men were in it, as I live” ​— ​the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​“they could not rescue their sons or daughters. They alone would be rescued, but the land would be desolate.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:6 -

For even if they flee from devastation,

Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them.

Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;

thorns will invade their tents.

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:13 -

Do not enter my people’s city gate

in the day of their disaster.

Yes, you ​— ​do not gloat over their misery

in the day of their disaster,

and do not appropriate their possessions

in the day of their disaster.

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