אָבַדʼâbad
אָבַד: perish
Pronunciation: aw-bad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6
Meanings
Qal
1.
perish, die (Numbers 17:27; Numbers 17:28; Deuteronomy 26:5)
perish, be exterminated (Leviticus 26:38; Deuteronomy 8:19; Deuteronomy 8:20)
perish, be ruined, destroyed (Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 48:8; Joel 1:11)
2. perish, vanish (Job 18:17; Psalms 9:7; Psalms 41:6)
3. be lost, strayed (1 Samuel 9:3; 1 Samuel 9:20; Jeremiah 50:6)
Pi`el: construct id. (2 Kings 21:3; Ezekiel 28:16; Jeremiah 15:7)
1. cause to perish, destroy, kill (2 Kings 11:1; Esther 3:9; Esther 4:7)
2. cause to vanish, blot out, do away with (Deuteronomy 12:3; Jeremiah 51:55; Isaiah 26:14)
3. cause to stray, lose (Jeremiah 23:1; Ecclesiastes 3:6)
Hiph`il
1. destroy, put to death (Leviticus 23:30; Leviticus 23:29; Jeremiah 49:38)
: perish
Pe`al: perish (Jeremiah 10:11)
Haph`el: destoy (Daniel 2:24; Daniel 2:18; Daniel 2:12)
Hoph`al: be destroyed (Daniel 7:11)
Same root
- אֲבַדʼăbad · H7{properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)}
- אֹבֵדʼôbêd · H8(concrete) wretched or (abstract) destruction
- אֲבֵדָהʼăbêdâh · H9concrete, something lost; abstract, destruction, i.e. Hades
- אֲבַדּוֹןʼăbaddôwn · H11abstract, a perishing; concrete, Hades
- אַבְדָןʼabdân · H12a perishing
- אׇבְדַןʼobdan · H13a perishing
Where it appears
Appears 184 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 10:7 Pharaoh’s officials now came to Pharaoh and appealed to him. “How long will you let this man hold us hostage? Let the men go to worship the Lord their God! Don’t you realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”
- Leviticus 23:30 And I will destroy anyone among you who does any work on that day.
- Leviticus 26:38 You will die among the foreign nations and be devoured in the land of your enemies.
- Numbers 16:33 So they went down alive into the grave, along with all their belongings. The earth closed over them, and they all vanished from among the people of Israel.
- Numbers 17:12 Then the people of Israel said to Moses, “Look, we are doomed! We are dead! We are ruined!
- Numbers 21:29 What sorrow awaits you, O people of Moab! You are finished, O worshipers of Chemosh! Chemosh has left his sons as refugees, his daughters as captives of Sihon, the Amorite king.
See every passage
- Exodus 10:7
- Leviticus 23:30, 26:38
- Numbers 16:33, 17:12, 21:29, 21:30, 24:19, 33:52
- Deuteronomy 4:26, 7:10, 7:20, 7:24, 8:19, 8:20, 9:3, 11:4, 11:17, 12:2, 12:3, 22:3, 26:5, 28:20, 28:22, 28:51, 28:63, 30:18, 32:28
- Joshua 7:7, 23:13, 23:16
- Judges 5:31
- 1 Samuel 9:3, 9:20
- 2 Samuel 1:27
- 2 Kings 9:8, 10:19, 11:1, 13:7, 19:18, 21:3, 24:2
- Esther 3:9, 3:13, 4:7, 4:14, 4:16, 7:4, 8:5, 8:11, 9:6, 9:12, 9:24
- Job 3:3, 4:7, 4:9, 4:11, 4:20, 6:18, 8:13, 11:20, 12:23, 14:19, 18:17, 20:7, 29:13, 30:2, 31:19
- Psalms 1:6, 2:12, 5:6, 9:3, 9:5, 9:6, 9:18, 10:16, 21:10, 31:12, 37:20, 41:5, 49:10, 68:2, 73:27, 80:16, 83:17, 92:9, 102:26, 112:10, 119:92, 119:95, 119:176, 142:4, 143:12, 146:4
- Proverbs 1:32, 10:28, 11:7, 11:10, 19:9, 21:28, 28:28, 29:3, 31:6
- Ecclesiastes 3:6, 5:14, 7:7, 7:15, 9:6, 9:18
- Isaiah 26:14, 27:13, 29:14, 37:19, 41:11, 57:1, 60:12
- Jeremiah 1:10, 4:9, 6:21, 7:28, 9:12, 10:15, 12:17, 15:7, 18:7, 18:18, 23:1, 25:10, 25:35, 27:10, 27:15, 31:28, 40:15, 46:8, 48:8, 48:36, 48:46, 49:7, 49:38, 50:6, 51:18, 51:55
- Lamentations 2:9, 3:18
- Ezekiel 6:3, 7:26, 12:22, 19:5, 22:27, 25:7, 25:16, 26:17, 28:16, 30:13, 32:13, 34:4, 34:16, 37:11
- Joel 1:11
- Amos 1:8, 2:14, 3:15
- Obadiah 1:8, 1:12
- Jonah 1:6, 1:14, 3:9, 4:10
- Micah 4:9, 5:10, 7:2
- Zephaniah 2:5, 2:13
- Zechariah 9:5
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).