Destroy

Destroy - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

DESTROY, v.t. [L. To pile, to build.]

1. To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an edifice, the union of which is necessary to constitute the thing; as, to destroy a house or temple; to destroy a fortification.

2. To ruin; to annihilate a thing by demolishing or by burning; as, to destroy a city.

3. To ruin; to bring to naught; to annihilate; as, to destroy a theory or scheme; to destroy a government; to destroy influence.

4. To lay waste; to make desolate.

Go up against this land, and destroy it. Isa 36.

5. To kill; to slay; to extirpate; applied to men or other animals.

Ye shall destroy all this people. Num 32.

All the wicked will he destroy. Psa 145.

6. To take away; to cause to cease; to put an end to; as, pain destroys happiness.

That the body of sin might be destroyed. Rom 6.

7. To kill; to eat; to devour; to consume. Birds destroy insects. Hawks destroy chickens.

8. In general, to put an end to; to annihilate a thing or the form in which it exists. An army is destroyed by slaughter, capture or dispersion; a forest, by the ax, or by fire; towns, by fire or inundation, _c.

9. In chimistry, to resolve a body into its parts or elements.

Destruction - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

In Job 26:6, 28:22 (Heb. abaddon) is sheol, the realm of the dead.

Destruction - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

DESTRUCTION, n.

1. The act of destroying; demolition; a pulling down; subversion; ruin, by whatever means; as the destruction of buildings, or of towns. Destruction consists in the annihilation of the form of any theing; that form of parts which constitues it what it is; as the destruction of grass or herbage by eating; of a forest, by cutting down the trees; or it denotes a total annihilation; as the destruction of a particular government; the destruction of happiness.

2. Death; murder; slaughter; massacre.

There was a deadly destruction throughout all the city. 1 Sam 5.

3. Ruin.

Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom 3.

4. Eternal death.

Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction. Mat 7.

5. Cause of destruction; a consuming plague; a destroyer.

The destruction that wasteth at noon-day. Psa 91.

de-struk'-shun: In the King James Version this word translates over 30 Hebrew words in the Old Testament, and 4 words in the New Testament. Of these the most interesting, as having a technical sense, is 'abhaddon (from verb 'abhadh, "to be lost," "to perish"). It is found 6 times in the Wisdom Literature, and nowhere else in the Old Testament; compare Re 9:11. See ABADDON.

Definition

The term “destroy” means to completely make an end to something, so that it no longer exists.

• The term “destroyer” means “a person who destroys.”
• This term is often used in the Old Testament as a general reference to anyone who destroys other people, such as an invading army.
• When God sent the angel to kill all the firstborn males in Egypt, that angel was referred to as “the destroyer of the firstborn.” This could be translated as “the one (or angel) who killed the firstborn males.”
• In the book of Revelation about the end times, Satan or some other evil spirit is called “the Destroyer.” He is the “one who destroys” because his purpose is to destroy and ruin everything God created.

(See also: angel, Egypt, firstborn, Passover)

Bible References

• Exodus 12:23
• Hebrews 11:28
• Jeremiah 6:26
• Judges 16:24

Word Data

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