Greek noun (feminine) · G684
ἀπώλεια
apoleiaap-o'-li-a
destruction
18 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: apṓleia
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G684is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G684
ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal)
The King James renders it: damnable(-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
apoleia is rendered "destruction". It stands 18 times in the Greek text, across eleven books.
- Five of the uses stand in 2 Peter, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
Matthew 7:13ἀπώλειαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eighteen uses are in 2 Peter.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- destruction12
- of destruction3
- waste2
- destructive1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἀπώλειαν8
- ἀπωλείας5
- ἀπώλεια4
- ἀπώλειαν.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular9N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular5N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular4N-NSF
Matthew
two uses
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- ἀπώλειανapoleiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
When the disciples saw this, they were indignant and asked, “Why this waste?
- ἀπώλειαapoleianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: waste
Mark
one use
Some of those present, however, expressed their indignation to one another: “Why this waste of perfume?
- ἀπώλειαapoleianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: waste
John
one use
While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
- ἀπωλείαςapoleiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of destruction
Acts
one use
But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
- ἀπώλειανapoleiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
Romans
one use
What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
- ἀπώλειανapoleiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
Philippians
two uses
without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a clear sign of their destruction but of your salvation, and it is from God.
- ἀπωλείαςapoleiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of destruction
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
- ἀπώλειαapoleianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
2 Thessalonians
one use
Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.
- ἀπωλείαςapoleiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of destruction
1 Timothy
one use
Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- ἀπώλειανapoleiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
Hebrews
one use
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
- ἀπώλειανapoleiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
2 Peter
five uses
Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
- ἀπωλείαςapoleiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: destructive
- ἀπώλειανapoleiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
- ἀπώλειαapoleianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- ἀπωλείαςapoleiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
- ἀπώλειαν.¶apoleiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
Revelation
two uses
The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.
- ἀπώλειανapoleiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
The beast that was, and now is not, is an eighth king, who belongs to the other seven and is going into destruction.
- ἀπώλειανapoleiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: destruction
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.