Definition

ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal)

Etymology

from a presumed derivative of G622 (ἀπόλλυμι);

Where the KJV renders it

• damnable(-nation)
• destruction
• die
• perdition
• X perish
• pernicious ways
• waste

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.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.