Limitless Word
πορθέωporthéō
GreekG41993 occurrences (KJV)

to ravage (figuratively)

KJV renders it: destroy, waste

Where it appears

  • Acts 9:21All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”
  • Gal 1:13For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.
  • Gal 1:23but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.