olethros

Strong’sG3639

ruin, doom, destruction

stem olethr-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ὄλεθρος, -ον

(< ὄλλυμι, to destroy), [in LXX for שֹׁד, שָׁדַד, etc.;]

ruin, destruction, death: I Th 5:3, I Ti 6:9; αἰώνιος, II Th 1:9 (L, txt., ὀλέθριος, q.v.); εἰς ὄ. τῆς σαρκός, for physical discipline, to destroy carnal lusts, I Co 5:5.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3639 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidol'-eth-ros

a prolonged form); ruin, i.e. death, punishment

Fromfrom a primary ὄλλυμι (to destroy;

King Jamesdestruction.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ὄλεθρ-ος, ὁ,
ruin, destruction, death, αἰπὺς ὄ. Refs 8th c.BC+; ὀλέθρου πείρατα, like{τέλος θανάτοιο}, the consummation of death, Refs; ὄ., opposed to γένεσις, Refs 4th c.BC+; οὐκ εἰς ὄλεθρο; as an imprecation, plague take thee! Refs 5th c.BC+; χρημάτων ὀλέθρῳ by destruction of property. Refs 5th c.BC+
II that which causes destruction, pest, plague, Refs 8th c.BC+; contemptuously of persons, γεγονὼς κακῶς καὶ ἐὼν ὄ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ὄ. Μακεδών, of Philip, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὄ. γραμματεύς a pestilent scribe, of Aeschines, Refs; τὸν βάσκανον, τὸν δ᾽ ὄ. the cheat, the pest! Refs 5th c.BC+
III seduction, Ἑλένης Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

destruction3×ruin1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	olethros1×ὄλεθρος	olethrois
object accusative	olethron3×ὄλεθρον	olethroin
direct address vocative	olethror	olethroir
of, belonging to genitive	olethrou	olethroiu
to, for dative	olethro	olethroi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

olethrstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

olethro is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

olethros“destruction”subjectnominative singular1×

1 Thessalonians 5:3… kai asfaleias, tote aifnidios autoi epistēotō olethros hōsper tas ōdinas ta en gastra …… people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like …

olethron“destruction”objectaccusative singular3×

1 Corinthians 5:5paradōara ton toiouton to Satano eis olethron tau sarkau, hina tem pneumem sōziteia …… man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his …

2 Thessalonians 1:9hotinois dikan tinali olethron aiōnion apo prosōpeu tou kuriou kai …… will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the …

1 Timothy 6:9… blaberain, hotinais buthizalō toin anthrōpoin eis olethron kai apōleian;… harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.