Doom
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
(2): ( v. t.) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
(3): ( v. t.) To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
(4): ( v. t.) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
(5): ( v. t.) Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
(6): ( v. t.) Ruin; death.
(7): ( v. t.) That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
(8): ( v. t.) Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
(9): ( v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]
doom : Occurs only once in the King James Version (2 Esdras 7:43), "The day of doom shall be the end of this time" (the Revised Version (British and American) "the day of judgment"); but the Revised Version (British and American) gives it as the rendering of צפירה , cephı̄rāh , in Ezekiel 7:7 , Ezekiel 7:10 (the King James Version "the morning," the Revised Version, margin "the turn" or "the crowning time"; but the meaning is not yet quite certain); and in 1 Corinthians 4:9 ( ἐπιθανάτιος , epithanátios , "as men doomed to death," the King James Version "appointed (originally "approved") unto death"). Our word "doom" is connected with the word "deem," and signifies either the act of judging or (far more often) the sentence itself or the condition resulting therefrom (compare "Deemster" of Isle of Man and Jersey). Generally, but not always, an unfavorable judgment is implied. Compare Dryden, Coronation of Charles II , i, 127:
"Two kingdoms wait your doom, and, as you choose,
This must receive a crown, or that must lose."
