Definition

to spoil, i.e. slay

Etymology

from G3639 (ὄλεθρος);

Word family

• ὄλεθρος ólethros

How the KJV renders it

• destroy

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.