ἈΠΩΛΕΙΑΝ, ἀπωλειαν
APŌLEIAN, apōleian
Sounds Like: ap-OH-li-an
Translations: destruction, ruin, perishing, loss, waste, a destruction, a ruin
From the root: ἈΠΩΛΕΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a state of ruin, destruction, or perishing, often implying complete loss or waste. It can be used to describe the physical destruction of something or the spiritual ruin of a person.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0684 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 12:4
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 3:97, 11:202
- Book 2 — 6:117, 9:208, 9:225, 14:303
- Book 9 — 7:140, 10:212
- Book 11 — 6:220, 6:224, 6:233, 6:262, 6:278, 6:279
- Book 13 — 6:194
- Book 15 — 3:62
- Book 16 — 7:228, 10:339, 11:359
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 12:5, 28:8
- Book Two — 16:64
- Book Three — 7:162
- Book Four — 5:19, 6:11, 6:28
- Book Five — 9:16, 10:5
- Book Six — 2:21, 2:22, 10:8
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 1:7
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Chronicles — 21:17
- Judith — 13:16
- 1 Maccabees — 3:42
- 2 Maccabees — 12:27
- 3 Maccabees — 6:23, 6:38
- 4 Maccabees — 15:24
- Psalms of Solomon — 13:10, 16:5
- Proverbs — 6:32, 16:26
- Sirach — 9:9, 33:11
- Isaiah — 14:23, 33:2, 34:12, 54:16
- Jeremiah — 30:2, 30:7, 30:10, 51:12
- Baruch — 4:6, 4:25
- Ezekiel — 26:21, 28:7, 29:12, 31:11, 32:15
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:96
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:18, 6:22, 14:30
- Enoch — 10:12, 14:6
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 6 — 2:4
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 7:13
- Acts — 8:20
- Romans — 9:22
- 1 Timothy — 6:9
- Hebrews — 10:39
- 2 Peter — 2:1, 3:16
- Revelation — 17:8, 17:11
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΩΛΕΙΑ.
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.
- ἈΠΩΛΕΑ — destruction, ruin, perishing, waste, a destruction, a ruin
- ἈΠΩΛΕΙΑ — destruction, ruin, perishing, waste, loss, perdition
- ἈΠΩΛΕΙΑΙ — destruction, ruin, perishing, waste, loss, a destruction, a ruin
- ἈΠΩΛΕΙΑΣ — of destruction, of perdition, of ruin, of waste, of loss
- ἈΠΩΛΙΑΣ — of destruction, of ruin, of perdition, destruction, ruin, perdition, a destruction, a ruin, a perdition
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