Strong’s H6986 · Hebrew
קֶטֶב
qeṭeb · keh'-teb
Origin from an unused root meaning to cut off;
Meaning ruin
In the King James Version destroying, destruction.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Deuteronomy 32:24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
- Psalms 91:6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
- Isaiah 28:2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.