ΑΠΟΛΛΥΩ, απολλυω
APOLLYŌ, apollyō
Sounds Like: ah-POL-loo-oh
Translations: destroy, perish, lose, ruin, kill, be lost
From the root: ΑΠΟΛΛΥΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This verb means to destroy, to ruin, or to cause to perish. It can also mean to lose something or to be lost oneself. In some contexts, it refers to physical destruction or death, while in others it can refer to spiritual ruin or loss. It is a compound word formed from the preposition 'ἀπό' (APO), meaning 'from' or 'away from', and the verb 'ὄλλυμι' (OLLUMI), meaning 'to destroy' or 'to lose'.
Inflection: Present Active Indicative (1st person singular) or Present Active Infinitive. It inflects for person, number, tense, mood, and voice.
Strong’s number: G0622 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΠΟΛΛΥΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΟΛΛΥΕΙ — destroys, ruins, perishes, loses, is lost
- ἈΠΟΛΛΥΕΙΝ — to destroy, to ruin, to perish, to lose, to put to death
- ἈΠΟΛΛΥΜΑΙ — I perish, I am destroyed, I am lost, I am ruined
- ἈΠΟΛΛΥΝΑΙ — to destroy, to perish, to lose, to be lost
- ἈΠΟΛΛΥΟΥΣΑΝ — destroying, ruining, losing, perishing
- ἈΠΟΛΛΥΟΥΣΙ — they destroy, they perish, they lose, they are lost
- ἈΠΟΛΛΥΣΙ — destroys, perishes, ruins, loses, kills
- ἈΠΟΛΛΥΣΙΝ — destroys, ruins, perishes, loses, to destroy, to ruin, to perish, to lose
- ΑΠΟΛΛΥΕΙ — destroys, loses, perishes, ruins, abolishes, puts to death
- ΑΠΟΛΛΥΣΙ — he destroys, he perishes, he loses, he is lost
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