Bible Dictionary: Extinction

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

2. (n.) State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.

Greek

2506. kathairesis -- a pulling down
... destruction, pulling down. From kathaireo; demolition; figuratively, extinction
-- destruction, pulling down. see GREEK kathaireo. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6365. pid -- ruin, disaster
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition ruin, disaster NASB Word Usage calamity
(1), disaster (1), extinction (1), ruin (1). destruction, ruin. ...
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6783. tsemithuth -- completion, finality
... Or tsmithuth {tsem-ee-thooth'}; from tsamath; excision, ie Destruction; used only
(adverbially) with prepositional prefix to extinction, ie Perpetually -- ever ...
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Library

The Puritan Beginnings of the Church in virginia ---Its Decline ...
... A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY. CHAPTER V. THE PURITAN BEGINNINGS OF
THE CHURCH IN VIRGINIA"-ITS DECLINE ALMOST TO EXTINCTION. ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter v the puritan beginnings.htm

Evil by no Means Found in the Stars and Constellations; all the ...
... XIII."Evil by No Means Found in the Stars and Constellations; All the Evils of Life
Vain in the Manichæan Opinion, Which Bring on the Extinction of Life ...
/.../alexander/of the manichaeans/chapter xiii evil by no means.htm

The Project of French Empire and Evangelization --Its Wide and ...
... A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY. CHAPTER III. THE PROJECT OF FRENCH EMPIRE AND
EVANGELIZATION"ITS WIDE AND RAPID SUCCESS"ITS SUDDEN EXTINCTION. ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter iii the project of.htm

Dying Lamps
... The extinction of their light was not the act of a moment, but was a gradual process,
which had advanced in some degree before it attracted the attention of ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/dying lamps.htm

John is Rather to be Understood of Our Perfect Likeness with the ...
... of ours is mortal and perishable, we shall still, when we have discharged our human
offices, have a pleasant setting, and a not painful extinction, and as it ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 19 john is rather to.htm

'Deliver us from Evil'
... The whole sum of human sorrow is gathered into one petition, that we may all feel
that every item of it is capable of attenuation and extinction; and so our ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/deliver us from evil.htm

Manichæan Blasphemies Concerning the Nature of God.
... in a sphere, as in a prison, the race of darkness, and let him fasten outside the
nature of light, to which he promised perpetual rest on the extinction of the ...
/.../chapter 42 name blasphemies concerning.htm

Close of the Colonial Era --The German Churches --The Beginnings ...
... [118] The astonishingly sudden and complete extinction of the French politico-religious
empire in Canada and the West made possible, and at no remote time ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter xii close of the.htm

In the Fifteenth Year of Tiberius Cæsar and under the Pontificate ...
... the one, by turning all higher aspirations self-ward, the other, by quenching them
in the enjoyment of the moment; the one, by making the extinction of all ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xi in the fifteenth.htm

Spanish Conquest-The Propagation, Decay, and Downfall of Spanish ...
... The lessons taught by this amazingly swift extension of the empire and the church,
and its arrest and almost extinction, are legible on the surface of the ...
/.../chapter ii spanish conquest-the propagation.htm

Thesaurus

Extinction (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression;
as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim. ...
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Decline (10 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less
perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish ...
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Punishment (417 Occurrences)
... This does not settle the nature or duration of the punishment; but it excludes the
idea that physical death is the extinction of being, or that annihilation ...
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Extinguish (6 Occurrences)

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Everlasting (192 Occurrences)
... This does not settle the nature or duration of the punishment; but it excludes the
idea that physical death is the extinction of being, or that annihilation ...
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Out (29154 Occurrences)
... 4. (a.) Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the end; completely;
hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction, exhaustion, completion; as ...
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Jabeshgilead (12 Occurrences)
... the crag Rimmon. These captives were given to them as wives, that the tribe
might be saved from extinction (Judges 21). This city ...
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Jabesh-gilead (12 Occurrences)
... the crag Rimmon. These captives were given to them as wives, that the tribe
might be saved from extinction (Judges 21). This city ...
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Judges (117 Occurrences)
... It records (a) the conquest (17, 18) of Laish by a portion of the tribe of Dan;
and (b) the almost total extinction of the tribe of Benjamin by the other tribes ...
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Wear (56 Occurrences)
... 10. (vi) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury,
loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually. 11. ...
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Bible Concordance

Extinction (4 Occurrences)

2 Peter 2:6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;
(See RSV)

Leviticus 25:23 And the land is not sold -- to extinction, for the land 'is' Mine, for sojourners and settlers 'are' ye with Me;
(YLT)

Leviticus 25:30 and if it is not redeemed until the fulness to him of a perfect year, then hath the house which 'is' in a walled city been established to extinction to the buyer of it, to his generations; it goeth not out in the jubilee;
(YLT)

Job 31:29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Extinction

Related Terms

Decline (10 Occurrences)

Punishment (417 Occurrences)

Extinguish (6 Occurrences)

Everlasting (192 Occurrences)

Out (29154 Occurrences)

Jabeshgilead (12 Occurrences)

Jabesh-gilead (12 Occurrences)

Judges (117 Occurrences)