ἀφανισμός
destruction
‘destruction’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G854 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“destruction” is the headline sense of the Greek noun αφανισμος (aphanismós). A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Hebrews. A true hapax — its single appearance is Hebrews 8:13. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G854 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Hebrews 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Vanish away 1×
- American Standard Version: Vanishing away 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Disappear 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Disappearing 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G854 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G854 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G854 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G854 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- disappearance
- destruction
Word origin
Derived from αφανιζω (aphanízō) (G853) — to make vanish.
From G853 ; disappearance that is (figuratively) abrogation : - vanish away.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αφανισμος appears 49 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 47 verses in 13 books.
- 49
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 47
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 7:2 ἀφανισμός
- 1 Kings 9:7 ἀφανισμός
- 2 Kings 22:19 ἀφανισμός
- 2 Chronicles 29:8 ἀφανισμός
- Ezra 4:22 ἀφανισμός
- Jeremiah 9:10 ἀφανισμός
- Ezekiel 4:16 ἀφανισμός
- Hosea 5:9 ἀφανισμός
- Joel 1:7 ἀφανισμός
- Micah 1:7 ἀφανισμός
- Zephaniah 1:13 ἀφανισμός
- Zechariah 7:14 ἀφανισμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G854) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 7:2 ἀφανισμός and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
- 1 Kings 9:7 ἀφανισμός then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
- 1 Kings 13:34 ἀφανισμός This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
- 2 Kings 22:19 ἀφανισμός because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 29:8 ἀφανισμός Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
- 2 Chronicles 36:19 ἀφανισμός They burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces of it with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.
- Ezra 4:22 ἀφανισμός Take heed that you not be slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
- Jeremiah 9:10 ἀφανισμός For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.
- Jeremiah 10:22 ἀφανισμός The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.
- Jeremiah 12:11 ἀφανισμός They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
- Jeremiah 18:16 ἀφανισμός to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
- Jeremiah 19:8 ἀφανισμός I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.
- Jeremiah 25:9 ἀφανισμός behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Jeremiah 25:11 ἀφανισμός This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- Jeremiah 25:12 ἀφανισμός It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.
- Jeremiah 26:19 ἀφανισμός Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.
- Jeremiah 27:3 ἀφανισμός and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;
- Jeremiah 27:13 ἀφανισμός Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
- Jeremiah 27:23 ἀφανισμός
- Jeremiah 28:26 ἀφανισμός
- Jeremiah 28:29 ἀφανισμός
- Jeremiah 28:37 ἀφανισμός
- Jeremiah 28:41 ἀφανισμός
- Jeremiah 28:62 ἀφανισμός
- Ezekiel 4:16 ἀφανισμός Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
- Ezekiel 6:14 ἀφανισμός I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 7:27 ἀφανισμός The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 12:19 ἀφανισμός and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.
- Ezekiel 12:20 ἀφανισμός The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 14:8 ἀφανισμός and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 14:15 ἀφανισμός If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;
- Ezekiel 15:8 ἀφανισμός I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 23:33 ἀφανισμός You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
- Hosea 5:9 ἀφανισμός Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
- Joel 1:7 ἀφανισμός He has laid my vine waste, And stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
- Joel 2:3 ἀφανισμός A fire devours before them, And behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
- Joel 4:19 ἀφανισμός
- Micah 1:7 ἀφανισμός All her idols will be beaten to pieces, And all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, And all her images I will destroy; For of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, And to the hire of a prostitute shall they return."
- Micah 6:16 ἀφανισμός For the statutes of Omri are kept, And all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, That I may make you a ruin, And her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."
- Micah 7:13 ἀφανισμός Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, For the fruit of their doings.
- Zephaniah 1:13 ἀφανισμός Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.
- Zephaniah 1:15 ἀφανισμός That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
- Zephaniah 2:4 ἀφανισμός For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
- Zephaniah 2:13 ἀφανισμός He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.
- Zephaniah 2:15 ἀφανισμός This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
- Zechariah 7:14 ἀφανισμός "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."
- Malachi 1:3 ἀφανισμός but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G854) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
