ὄλλυμι
destroy, perish
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὄλλυμι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 23 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.
- Job 4:11 ὄλλυμι The old lion has perished for lack of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.
- Job 18:11 ὄλλυμι Let pains destroy him round about, and let many enemies come about him,
- Job 20:10 ὄλλυμι Let his inferiors destroy his children, and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.
- Job 34:17 ὄλλυμι Behold then the one that hates iniquities, and that destroys the wicked, who is for ever just.
- Proverbs 1:32 ὄλλυμι For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly.
- Proverbs 2:22 ὄλλυμι The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.
- Proverbs 9:18 ὄλλυμι But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell. But hasten away, delay not in the place, neither fix your eye upon her: for thus shall you go through strange water; but do you abstain from strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain, that you may live long, and years of life may be added to you.
- Proverbs 10:28 ὄλλυμι Joy rests long with the righteous: but the hope of the ungodly shall perish.
- Proverbs 11:7 ὄλλυμι At the death of a just man his hope does not perish: but the boast of the ungodly perishes.
- Proverbs 11:7 ὄλλυμι At the death of a just man his hope does not perish: but the boast of the ungodly perishes.
- Proverbs 13:2 ὄλλυμι A good man shall eat of the fruits of righteousness: but the lives of transgressors shall perish before their time.
- Proverbs 15:6 ὄλλυμι In the houses of the righteous is much strength: but the fruits of the ungodly shall perish.
- Proverbs 16:1 ὄλλυμι
- Proverbs 25:19 ὄλλυμι The way of the wicked and the foot of the transgressor shall perish in an evil day.
- Jeremiah 10:20 ὄλλυμι Your tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all your curtains have been torn asunder: my children and my cattle are no more: there is no more any place for my tabernacle, nor place for my curtains.
- Jeremiah 30:4 ὄλλυμι Why do you⌃ exult in the plains of the Enakim, you haughty daughter, that trust in your treasures, that say, Who shall come in to me?
- Jeremiah 30:19 ὄλλυμι
- Jeremiah 31:1 ὄλλυμι Thus has the Lord said concerning MOAB, Woe to Nabau! for it has perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.
- Jeremiah 31:15 ὄλλυμι Moab is ruined, even his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.
- Jeremiah 31:18 ὄλλυμι Come down from your glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against you one to ravage your strong-hold.
- Jeremiah 31:20 ὄλλυμι Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.
- Jeremiah 38:2 ὄλλυμι Thus says the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: go you⌃ and destroy not Israel.
- Jeremiah 38:2 ὄλλυμι Thus says the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: go you⌃ and destroy not Israel.
About this word
About this word
ὄλλυμι (óllymi), “destroy, perish,” 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 23 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 →