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Koine Greek wordlink #148930

SR GNT Yac 4:12 ἀπολέσαι (apolesai) ‘being_able to save and to destroy you but who’ Strongs=6220 Lemma=apolluō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Refers to Word #148923

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Other uses (6) of identical word form ἀπολέσαι (V-NAA....) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀπολέσαι’ (V-NAA....) is always and only glossed as ‘to destroy’.

Mark 1:24 ‘Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) Nazaraʸnos you came to destroy us I have known you’ SR GNT Mark 1:24 word 12

Mat 2:13 ‘to_be seeking the little_child to destroy him’ SR GNT Mat 2:13 word 54

Mat 10:28 ‘soul and body to destroy in geenna’ SR GNT Mat 10:28 word 33

Luke 4:34 ‘Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) Nazaraʸnos you came to destroy us I have known you’ SR GNT Luke 4:34 word 12

Luke 6:9 ‘life to save or to destroy’ SR GNT Luke 6:9 word 27

Luke 19:47 ‘scribes were seeking him to destroy and the leaders’ SR GNT Luke 19:47 word 18

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘apolluō’ have 29 different glosses: ‘having been_lost’, ‘having destroyed’, ‘having lost’, ‘having_been lost’, ‘is losing’, ‘may destroy’, ‘may lose’, ‘may lose it’, ‘may perish’, ‘to destroy’, ‘to perish’, ‘will_be destroying’, ‘will_be destroying it’, ‘will_be losing’, ‘will_be perishing’, ‘I may lose’, ‘I will_be destroying’, ‘I lost’, ‘he may lose’, ‘he will_be destroying’, ‘it may destroy’, ‘she may lose’, ‘they may destroy’, ‘they may perish’, ‘they perished’, ‘you_all may lose’, ‘destroyed’, ‘destroyed themselves’, ‘perished’.

Greek words (8) other than ἀπολέσαι (V-NAA....) with a gloss related to ‘destroy’

YHN 2:19 λύσατε (lusate) V-MAA2..P Lemma=luō ‘and said to them destroy the temple this’ SR GNT Yhn 2:19 word 7

YHN 10:10 ἀπολέσῃ (apolesaʸ) V-SAA3..S ‘and may sacrifice and may destroy I came in_order_that’ SR GNT Yhn 10:10 word 15

MARK 3:6 ἀπολέσωσιν (apolesōsin) V-SAA3..P ‘him so_that him they may destroy’ SR GNT Mark 3:6 word 21

MARK 9:22 ἀπολέσῃ (apolesaʸ) V-SAA3..S ‘into waters in_order_that it may destroy him but if’ SR GNT Mark 9:22 word 15

MARK 11:18 ἀπολέσωσιν (apolesōsin) V-SAA3..P ‘they were seeking how him they may destroy they were fearing for him’ SR GNT Mark 11:18 word 14

MAT 12:14 ἀπολέσωσιν (apolesōsin) V-SAA3..P ‘him so_that him they may destroy’ SR GNT Mat 12:14 word 14

MAT 27:20 ἀπολέσωσιν (apolesōsin) V-SAA3..P ‘Barabbas and Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) they may destroy’ SR GNT Mat 27:20 word 17

1YHN 3:8 λύσῃ (lusaʸ) V-SAA3..S Lemma=luō ‘son of god in_order_that he may destroy the works of the’ SR GNT 1Yhn 3:8 word 24

Key: V=verb MAA2..P=imperative,aorist,active,2nd person plural NAA....=infinitive,aorist,active SAA3..P=subjunctive,aorist,active,3rd person plural SAA3..S=subjunctive,aorist,active,3rd person singular