Apṓleia — G684

Definition

feminine noun

ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal)

1. actively, a destroying, utter destruction
2. passively, a perishing, ruin, destruction
1. in general
2. in particular, the destruction which consists in the loss of eternal life, eternal misery, perdition, the lot of those excluded from the kingdom of God

Usually translated as

perdition, destruction, waste, damnable, damnation, die, perish, pernicious ways

Origin

from a presumed derivative of G622

• apóllymi (G622)

Occurrences

Apṓleia occurs 20 times in 19 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (2), Mark (1), John (1), Acts (2), Romans (1), Philippians (2), 2 Thessalonians (1), 1 Timothy (1), Hebrews (1), 2 Peter (5), Revelation (2)

• Matthew 7:13 — Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction (ἀπώλειαν), and many there be which go in thereat:
• Matthew 26:8 — But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste (ἀπώλεια)?
• Mark 14:4 — And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste (ἀπώλεια) of the ointment made?
• John 17:12 — While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition (ἀπωλείας); that the scripture might be fulfilled.
• Acts 8:20 — But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish (ἀπώλειαν) with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
• Acts 25:16 — To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die (ἀπώλειαν), before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
• Romans 9:22 — What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction (ἀπώλειαν):
• Philippians 1:28 — And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition (ἀπωλείας), but to you of salvation, and that of God.
• Philippians 3:19 — Whose end is destruction (ἀπώλεια), whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
• 2 Thessalonians 2:3 — Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition (ἀπωλείας);
• 1 Timothy 6:9 — But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition (ἀπώλειαν).
• Hebrews 10:39 — But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition (ἀπώλειαν); but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
• 2 Peter 2:1 — But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable (ἀπωλείας) heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
• 2 Peter 2:1 — But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction (ἀπώλειαν).
• 2 Peter 2:2 — And many shall follow their pernicious ways (απωλειαις); by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
• 2 Peter 2:3 — And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation (ἀπώλεια) slumbereth not.
• 2 Peter 3:7 — But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition (ἀπωλείας) of ungodly men.
• 2 Peter 3:16 — As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction (ἀπώλειαν).
• Revelation 17:8 — The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition (ἀπώλειαν): and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
• Revelation 17:11 — And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition (ἀπώλειαν).