Strong's Concordance olethros: destruction, death Original Word: ὄλεθρος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: olethros Phonetic Spelling: (ol'-eth-ros) Short Definition: ruin, doom, destruction Definition: ruin, doom, destruction, death. HELPS Word-studies 3639 ólethros (from ollymi/"destroy") – properly, ruination with its full, destructive results (LS). 3639 /ólethros ("ruination") however does not imply "extinction" (annihilation). Rather it emphasizes the consequent loss that goes with the complete "undoing." Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3639: ὀλέθριοςὀλέθριος, ὀλέθριον (in secular authors also of three term., as in Wis. 18:15) (ὄλεθρος), from (Homer), Herodotus down, destructive, deadly: δίκην, 2 Thessalonians 1:9 Lachmann text STRONGS NT 3639: ὄλεθροςὄλεθρος, ὄλεθρον (ὄλλυμι to destroy (perhaps (ὀλνυμι) allied to Latinvulnus)), from Homer down, rain, destruction, death: 1 Thessalonians 5:3; 1 Timothy 6:9; εἰς ὄλεθρον τῆς σαρκός, for the destruction of the flesh, said of the external ills and troubles by which the lusts of the flesh are subdued and destroyed, 1 Corinthians 5:5 (see παραδίδωμι, 2); equivalent to the loss of a life of blessedness after death, future misery, αἰώνιος (as 4 Macc. 10:15): 2 Thessalonians 1:9 (where L text ὀλέθριον, which see), cf. Wis. 1:12. STRONGS NT 3639a: ὀλιγοπιστίαὀλιγοπιστία, ὀλιγοπιστιας, ἡ, littleness of faith, little faith: Matthew 17:20 L T Tr WH, for R G ἀπιστία. (Several times in ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings.) From a primary ollumi (to destroy; a prolonged form); ruin, i.e. Death, punishment -- destruction. Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 36394 Occurrences ὄλεθρον — 3 Occ. ὄλεθρος — 1 Occ. 1 Corinthians 5:5 N-AMS GRK: Σατανᾷ εἰς ὄλεθρον τῆς σαρκός NAS: to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, KJV: for the destruction of the flesh, INT: to Satan for destruction of the flesh 1 Thessalonians 5:3 N-NMS 2 Thessalonians 1:9 N-AMS 1 Timothy 6:9 N-AMS |
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