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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)
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.
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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34 - [fn]And this event became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to blot it out and destroy it from off the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:26 -

I will also laugh at your disaster;

I will mock when your dread comes,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 -

When your dread comes like a storm

And your disaster comes like a whirlwind,

When distress and anguish come upon you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:7 -

The destruction of the wicked will drag them away,

Because they refuse to do justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31 -

‘A rumbling has come to the end of the earth

Because Yahweh has a contention against the nations.

He is entering into judgment with all flesh;

As for the wicked, He has given them to the sword,’ declares Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:3 -

“The sound of an outcry from Horonaim,

‘[fn]Devastation and great destruction!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 -

“A destroyer will come to every city,

So that no city will escape;

The valley also will perish,

And the plateau will be destroyed,

As Yahweh has said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:32 -

“More than the weeping for Jazer

I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah!

Your branches stretched across the sea,

They reached to the sea of Jazer;

Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest

The destroyer has fallen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:55 -

For Yahweh is going to destroy Babylon,

And He will make her loud [fn]noise [fn]vanish from her.

And their waves will roar like many waters;

The rumbling of their voices [fn]sounds forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:14 - “So throughout all their habitations I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and desecrated than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16 - though these three men were in its midst, as I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the country would become desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:6 -

For behold, they will go because of destruction;

Egypt will gather them up; Memphis will bury them.

Weeds will possess their desirable items of silver;

Thorns will be in their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:13 -

“Do not enter the gate of My people

In the day of their disaster.

Indeed, you, do not look on their calamity with triumph

In the day of their disaster.

And do not send out for their wealth

In the day of their disaster.

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