ἈΠΟΛΕΣΑΙ, ἀπολεσαι
APOLESAI, apolesai
Sounds Like: ah-po-LEH-sai
Translations: to destroy, to lose, to perish, to ruin, to put to death, to be lost
From the root: ἈΠΟΛΛΥΜΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist active infinitive form of the verb 'ἀπόλλυμι' (apollumi). It signifies the action of destroying, losing, or causing something to perish. It can be used in contexts where something is ruined, put to death, or simply becomes lost. The meaning can vary slightly depending on whether it refers to an object, a person, or a state of being.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G0622 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 22:7
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 3:99
- Book 6 — 13:291, 13:305, 14:336
- Book 7 — 1:38, 7:145
- Book 9 — 2:23
- Book 10 — 4:60, 7:124
- Book 11 — 6:218, 6:248
- Book 12 — 7:296
- Book 19 — 1:108
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 10:19
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 31:7
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Joshua — 7:7, 15:63, 24:10
- Ezra (Alpha) — 8:85
- Esther — 3:7, 3:9, 3:13, 4:17, 10:3
- 1 Maccabees — 12:49, 16:22
- 4 Maccabees — 8:9
- Ecclesiastes — 3:6
- Job — 2:3
- Wisdom — 12:6
- Isaiah — 11:9, 13:9, 14:25, 23:11, 25:11, 34:2, 43:28
- Jeremiah — 29:4, 34:12, 51:12
- Ezekiel — 30:11
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:12, 2:24, 7:26
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 7:26
- Enoch — 22:7
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
- Mandate 12 — 6:3
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 9 — 23:4
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΟΛΛΥΜΙ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΠΟΛΕΣΕΙ — he will destroy, she will destroy, it will destroy, he will perish, she will perish, it will perish
- ἈΠΟΛΕΣΘΑΙ — to perish, to be destroyed, to be lost
- ἈΠΟΛΛΥΜΕΝΟΣ — perishing, being destroyed, being lost, a perishing one, a destroyed one, a lost one
- ἈΠΟΛΛΥΣΘΕ — you are being destroyed, you perish, you are lost, be destroyed, perish, be lost
- ἈΠΟΛΟ — perish, destroy, lose, be lost, be ruined, be undone
- ἈΠΟΛΟΥΜΕΝΟΣ — perishing, being destroyed, being lost, about to perish, about to be destroyed, about to be lost
- ἈΠΟΛΩΛΕΙ — has destroyed, has perished, has lost, has ruined
- ἈΠΟΛΩΛΕΚΟΤΕΣ — having destroyed, having lost, lost, ruined, perished
- ἈΠΟΛΩΛΟΤΑΣ — lost, perished, destroyed, those who are lost, those who have perished, the lost ones
- ἈΠΩΛΛΥΕΝ — was destroying, was ruining, was perishing, was losing
- ἈΠΩΛΟΝΤΟ — they perished, they were destroyed, they were lost, they died
- ΤΟΝἈΠΟΛΕΣΑΝΤΑ — the one who destroyed, the one who lost, the destroyer, the loser
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