ὀλεθρεύω
destroy
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὀλεθρεύω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 14 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.
- Exodus 12:23 ὀλεθρεύω And the Lord shall pass by to strike the Egyptians, and shall see the blood upon the lintel, and upon both the door-posts; and the Lord shall pass by the door, and shall not suffer the destroyer to enter into your houses to strike you.
- Exodus 22:19 ὀλεθρεύω Every one that lies with a beast you⌃ shall surely put to death.
- Numbers 4:18 ὀλεθρεύω You⌃ shall not destroy the family of Caath from the tribe out of the midst of the Levites.
- Joshua 3:10 ὀλεθρεύω Hereby you⌃ shall know that the living God is among you, and will utterly destroy from before our face the Chananite, and the Chettite and Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Amorite, and the Gergesite, and the Jebusite.
- Joshua 3:10 ὀλεθρεύω Hereby you⌃ shall know that the living God is among you, and will utterly destroy from before our face the Chananite, and the Chettite and Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Amorite, and the Gergesite, and the Jebusite.
- Joshua 7:25 ὀλεθρεύω And Joshua said to Achar, Why have you destroyed us? the Lord destroy you as at this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones.
- Judges 6:25 ὀλεθρεύω And it came to pass in that night, that the Lord said to him, Take the young bullock which your father has, even the second bullock of seven years old, and you shall destroy the altar of Baal which your father has, and the grove which is by it you shall destroy.
- Judges 6:28 ὀλεθρεύω And the men of the city rose up early in the morning; and behold, the altar of Baal had been demolished, and the grove by it had been destroyed; and they saw the second bullock, which Gedeon offered on the altar that had been built.
- Judges 6:30 ὀλεθρεύω And the men of the city said to Joas, Bring out your son, and let him die, because he has destroyed the altar of Baal, and because he has destroyed the grove that is by it.
- Jeremiah 2:30 ὀλεθρεύω In vain have I struck your children; you⌃ have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet you⌃ feared not.
- Jeremiah 5:6 ὀλεθρεύω Therefore has a lion out of the forest struck them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.
- Jeremiah 22:7 ὀλεθρεύω and I will bring upon you a destroying man, and his axe: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
- Jeremiah 32:23 ὀλεθρεύω and Daedan, and Thaeman, and Ros, and every one that is shaved round about the face,
- Haggai 2:22 ὀλεθρεύω Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, saying, I shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
About this word
About this word
ὀλεθρεύω (olethreúō), “destroy,” 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 14 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 →