ἐκὄλλυμι
destroy utterly
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐκὄλλυμι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Proverbs 10:31 ἐκὄλλυμι The mouth of the righteous drops wisdom: but the tongue of the unjust shall perish.
- Proverbs 11:17 ἐκὄλλυμι A merciful man does good to his own soul: but the merciless destroys his own body.
- Proverbs 15:27 ἐκὄλλυμι A receiver of bribes destroys himself; but he that hates the receiving of bribes is safe. By alms and by faithful dealings sins are purged away; but by the fear of the Lord every one departs from evil.
About this word
About this word
ἐκὄλλυμι (ekóllymi), “destroy utterly,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 3 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
