אֲבַדʼăbad
perish
Pronunciation: ab-ad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7
Meanings
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
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Jeremiah 10:11 Say this to those who worship other gods: “Your so-called gods, who did not make the heavens and earth, will vanish from the earth and from under the heavens.”
- Daniel 2:12 The king was furious when he heard this, and he ordered that all the wise men of Babylon be executed.
- Daniel 2:18 He urged them to ask the God of heaven to show them his mercy by telling them the secret, so they would not be executed along with the other wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:24 Then Daniel went in to see Arioch, whom the king had ordered to execute the wise men of Babylon. Daniel said to him, “Don’t kill the wise men. Take me to the king, and I will tell him the meaning of his dream.”
- Daniel 7:11 I continued to watch because I could hear the little horn’s boastful speech. I kept watching until the fourth beast was killed and its body was destroyed by fire.
- Daniel 7:26 “But then the court will pass judgment, and all his power will be taken away and completely destroyed.
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).