# G853 ἀφανίζω

ἀφανίζω (aphanízō), Strong’s G853: to render unapparent, i.e. (actively) consume (becloud), or (passively) disappear (be destroyed) KJV: corrupt, disfigure, perish, vanish away. Occurs 87 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/G853 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*aphanízō* — to render unapparent, i.e. (actively) consume (becloud), or (passively) disappear (be destroyed)

KJV: corrupt, disfigure, perish, vanish away

Derived from [ἀφανής aphanḗs](https://besorah.bible/word/G852) (non-apparent))

Occurs 87 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 6:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=16) — “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be…
- [Matthew 6:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=19) — “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and…
- [Matthew 6:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/6?v=20) — but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break…
- [Acts 13:41](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/13?v=41) — ‘Behold, you scoffers! Wonder and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if…
- [Jacob 4:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/4?v=14) — Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a…
- [1 Esdras 6:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/6?v=33) — “Therefore may the Lord, whose name is called upon there, utterly destroy every king and nation that stretches out his…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 3:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/3?v=16) — But children of adulterers will not come to maturity. The seed of an unlawful union will vanish away.
- [Sirach 21:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/21?v=18) — As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool. The knowledge of an unwise man is talk without sense.
- [Sirach 45:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/45?v=26) — May God give you wisdom in your heart to judge his people in righteousness, that their good things may not be…
- [Baruch 3:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/baruch/3?v=19) — they have vanished and gone down to Hades, and others have come up in their place.