Strong's H6
אָבַד
- Language:
- Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament)
Definition
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV Translation
In the King James Version, אָבַד is translated as: break, destroy(-uction), [phrase] not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, [idiom] and surely, take, be undone, [idiom] utterly, be void of, have no way to flee..
About Strong's Concordance
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Hebrew and Aramaic root word in the Old Testament. The Hebrew dictionary covers all 8,674 root words. This entry is in the public domain.