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Waste

27Greek/Hebrew entries

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Greek G684 apṓleia

Original: ἀπώλεια

Meaning:
from a presumed derivative of ἀπόλλυμι; ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal):--damnable(-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal):--damnable(-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.

Greek G1159 dapanáō

Original: δαπανάω

Meaning:
from δαπάνη; to expend, i.e. (in a good sense) to incur cost, or (in a bad one) to waste:--be at charges, consume, spend.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to expend, i.e. (in a good sense) to incur cost, or (in a bad one) to waste:--be at charges, consume, spend.

Greek G1287 diaskorpízō

Original: διασκορπίζω

Meaning:
from διά and σκορπίζω; to dissipate, i.e. (genitive case) to rout or separate; specially, to winnow; figuratively, to squander:--disperse, scatter (abroad), strew, waste.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: figuratively, to squander:--disperse, scatter (abroad), strew, waste.

Greek G2048 érēmos

Original: ἔρημος

Meaning:
of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, χώρα being implied):--desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, χώρα being implied):--desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.

Greek G2049 erēmóō

Original: ἐρημόω

Meaning:
from ἔρημος; to lay waste (literally or figuratively):--(bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to lay waste (literally or figuratively):--(bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.

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Greek G4199 porthéō

Original: πορθέω

Meaning:
prolongation from (to sack); to ravage (figuratively):--destroy, waste.

Greek G4650 skorpízō

Original: σκορπίζω

Meaning:
apparently from the same as σκορπίος (through the idea of penetrating); to dissipate, i.e. (figuratively) put to flight, waste, be liberal:--disperse abroad, scatter (abroad).

Hebrew H1086 bâlâh

Original: בָּלָה

Meaning:
a primitive root; to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend); consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.

Hebrew H1110 bâlaq

Original: בָּלַק

Meaning:
a primitive root; to annihilate; (make) waste.

Hebrew H1197 bâʻar

Original: בָּעַר

Meaning:
a primitive root; also as denominative from בַּעַר; to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); to be(-come) brutish; be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, (cause to) eat (up), feed, heat, kindle, set (on fire), waste.

Hebrew H1326 bâthâh

Original: בָּתָה

Meaning:
probably an orthographical variation for בַּתָּה; desolation; waste.

Hebrew H2522 châlash

Original: חָלַשׁ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to prostrate; by implication, to overthrow, decay; discomfit, waste away, weaken.

Hebrew H2717 chârab

Original: חָרַב

Meaning:
or חֲרֵב; a primitive root; to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill; decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, [idiom] surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.

Hebrew H2720 chârêb

Original: חָרֵב

Meaning:
from חָרַב; parched or ruined; desolate, dry, waste.

Hebrew H2721 chôreb

Original: חֹרֶב

Meaning:
a collaterally form of חֶרֶב; drought or desolation; desolation, drought, dry, heat, [idiom] utterly, waste.

Hebrew H2723 chorbâh

Original: חׇרְבָּה

Meaning:
feminine of חֹרֶב; properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation; decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).

Hebrew H3765 kirçêm

Original: כִּרְסֵם

Meaning:
from כָּסַם; to lay waste; waste.

Hebrew H4875 mᵉshôwʼâh

Original: מְשׁוֹאָה

Meaning:
or מְשֹׁאָה; from the same as שׁוֹא; (a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck); desolation, waste.

Hebrew H5327 nâtsâh

Original: נָצָה

Meaning:
a primitive root; properly, to go forth, i.e. (by implication) to be expelled, and (consequently) desolate; causatively, to lay waste; also (specifically), to quarrel; be laid waste, runinous, strive (together).

Hebrew H7582 shâʼâh

Original: שָׁאָה

Meaning:
a primitive root; to rush; by implication, to desolate; be desolate, (make a) rush(-ing), (lay) waste.

Hebrew H7703 shâdad

Original: שָׁדַד

Meaning:
a primitive root; properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage; dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), [idiom] utterly, (lay) waste.

Hebrew H7736 shûwd

Original: שׁוּד

Meaning:
a primitive root; properly, to swell up, i.e. figuratively (by implication of insolence) to devastate; waste.

Hebrew H7843 shâchath

Original: שָׁחַת

Meaning:
a primitive root; to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively); batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, [idiom] utterly, waste(-r).

Hebrew H8047 shammâh

Original: שַׁמָּה

Meaning:
from שָׁמֵם; ruin; by implication, consternation; astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.

Hebrew H8074 shâmêm

Original: שָׁמֵם

Meaning:
a primitive root; to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense); make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.

Hebrew H8077 shᵉmâmâh

Original: שְׁמָמָה

Meaning:
or שִׁמָמָה; feminine of שָׁמֵם; devastation; figuratively, astonishment; (laid, [idiom] most) desolate(-ion), waste.

Hebrew H8414 tôhûw

Original: תֹּהוּ

Meaning:
from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain; confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

Verses containing this word showing 20 of 62

^{Leviticus 26:31} And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors. Open

^{Leviticus 26:33} And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. Open

^{Numbers 21:30} We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba. Open

^{Deuteronomy 32:10} He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Open

^{1 Kings 17:14} For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. Open

^{2 Kings 19:25} Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. Open

^{1 Chronicles 17:9} Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning, Open

^{Nehemiah 2:3} And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? Open

^{Nehemiah 2:17} Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. Open

^{Job 30:3} For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Open

^{Job 38:27} To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? Open

^{Psalm 79:7} For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. Open

^{Psalm 80:13} The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. Open

^{Isaiah 5:6} And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. Open

^{Isaiah 5:17} Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. Open

^{Isaiah 15:1} The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; Open

^{Isaiah 23:1} The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. Open

^{Isaiah 23:14} Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. Open

^{Isaiah 24:1} Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. Open

^{Isaiah 33:8} The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man. Open

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^{Isaiah 34:10} It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. Open

^{Isaiah 37:18} Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, Open

^{Isaiah 37:26} Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps. Open

^{Isaiah 42:15} I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. Open

^{Isaiah 49:17} Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. Open

^{Isaiah 49:19} For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. Open

^{Isaiah 51:3} For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Open

^{Isaiah 52:9} Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. Open

^{Isaiah 58:12} And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. Open

^{Isaiah 61:4} And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. Open

^{Isaiah 64:11} Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. Open

^{Jeremiah 2:15} The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. Open

^{Jeremiah 4:7} The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant. Open

^{Jeremiah 27:17} Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste? Open

^{Jeremiah 46:19} O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. Open

^{Jeremiah 49:13} For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. Open

^{Jeremiah 50:21} Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. Open

^{Ezekiel 5:14} Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. Open

^{Ezekiel 6:6} In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. Open

^{Ezekiel 12:20} And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Open

^{Ezekiel 19:7} And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. Open

^{Ezekiel 26:2} Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: Open

^{Ezekiel 29:9} And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. Open

^{Ezekiel 29:10} Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. Open

^{Ezekiel 29:12} And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. Open

^{Ezekiel 30:12} And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. Open

^{Ezekiel 35:4} I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. Open

^{Ezekiel 36:35} And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. Open

^{Ezekiel 36:38} As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD. Open

^{Ezekiel 38:8} After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Open

^{Joel 1:7} He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. Open

^{Amos 7:9} And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. Open

^{Amos 9:14} And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. Open

^{Micah 5:6} And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. Open

^{Nahum 2:10} She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. Open

^{Nahum 3:7} And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee? Open

^{Zephaniah 3:6} I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. Open

^{Haggai 1:4} Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Open

^{Haggai 1:9} Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Open

^{Malachi 1:3} And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Open

^{Matthew 26:8} But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? Open

^{Mark 14:4} And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? Open

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