The word(s) "destruction" appears 19 time(s) in 17 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Habib Shakir translation.

(11) And to every one We gave examples and every one did We destroy with utter destruction.

(12) They said: Swear to each other by Allah that we will certainly make a sudden attack on him and his family by night, then we will say to his heir: We did not witness the destruction of his family, and we are most surely truthful.

(13) The means of access to the heavens, then reach the god of Musa, and I surely think him to be a liar. And thus the evil of his deed was made fairseeming to Firon, and he was turned away from the way; and the struggle of Firon was not (to end) in aught but destruction.

(14) And (as for) those who disbelieve, for them is destruction and He has made their deeds ineffective.

(15) Have they not then journeyed in the land and seen how was the end of those before them: Allah brought down destruction upon them, and the unbelievers shall have the like of it.

(16) My Lord! forgive me and my parents and him who enters my house believing, and the believing men and the believing women; and do not increase the unjust in aught but destruction!

(17) Nearer to you (is destruction) and nearer,