2001 Translation

APŌLEIA, apōleia

Sounds Like: ah-po-LEH-yah

Translations: destruction, ruin, perishing, waste, loss, perdition

From the root: ἈΠΩΛΕΙΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a state of ruin, destruction, or utter loss. It can describe physical destruction, but often carries a stronger sense of spiritual or eternal ruin, especially in religious contexts. It implies a complete undoing or perishing, rather than mere damage.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G0684 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 12:6, 106:15

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:167

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 12:22

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 34:308

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 9:211, 16:342, 16:344, 16:345
• Book 8 — 12:302
• Book 10 — 9:165

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 15:19
• Book Three — 8:42
• Book Six — 1:32

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Esther — 8:6
• Judith — 6:4, 11:22
• 3 Maccabees — 6:11
• Psalms of Solomon — 3:13, 9:9, 14:6, 15:11, 17:25
• Proverbs — 1:26, 6:15, 10:11, 10:24, 11:3, 11:6, 13:1, 13:15, 15:11, 27:20, 28:28
• Job — 11:20, 20:5, 26:6, 27:7, 28:22, 31:3
• Wisdom — 1:13
• Sirach — 34:6
• Isaiah — 47:11
• Jeremiah — 12:17
• Ezekiel — 25:7, 27:36, 29:9
• Hosea — 10:14
• Enoch — 12:6

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 26:8
• Mark — 14:4
• Philippians — 3:19
• 2 Peter — 2:3

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
• ἈΠΩΛΕΙΑΙ — destruction, ruin, perishing, waste, loss, a destruction, a ruin
• ἈΠΩΛΕΙΑΝ — destruction, ruin, perishing, loss, waste, 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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