עָזַב

a.zavto leave: forsake
hebrewOld TestamentVerb215 occurrences29 books206 verses
This word comes from the name of Jerusalem.

Definition

a primitive root; to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
Traditional renderings: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, × surely.

Glossary entries

Zion Jerusalem Jebus, Jebusite Salem Ariel (Place) Hephzibah

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

215 total
  1. Proverbs 15:10לְעֹזֵ֣ב · for him who leaves
    Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.
  2. Proverbs 27:10תַּעֲזֹ֗ב · forsake
    Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
  3. Proverbs 28:4עֹזְבֵ֣י · Those who forsake
    Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
  4. Proverbs 28:13וְעֹזֵ֣ב · and renounces them
    He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
  5. Isaiah 1:4עָזְב֣וּ · They have forsaken
    Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
  6. Isaiah 1:28וְעֹזְבֵ֥י · and those who forsake
    But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
  7. Isaiah 7:16תֵּעָזֵ֤ב · will be laid waste
    For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
  8. Isaiah 10:3תַעַזְב֖וּ · will you leave
    What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
  9. Isaiah 10:14עֲזֻב֔וֹת · abandoned
    My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
  10. Isaiah 17:2עֲזֻב֖וֹת · are forsaken
    The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
  11. Isaiah 17:9 (2×)כַּעֲזוּבַ֤ת · forsaken; עָזְב֔וּ · abandoned
    In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.
  12. Isaiah 18:6יֵעָזְב֤וּ · be left
    They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.
  13. Isaiah 27:10וְנֶעֱזָ֖ב · forsaken
    For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
  14. Isaiah 32:14עֻזָּ֑ב · abandoned
    For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
  15. Isaiah 41:17אֶעֶזְבֵֽם׃ · forsake them
    The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
  16. Isaiah 42:16עֲזַבְתִּֽים׃ · forsake them
    I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
  17. Isaiah 49:14עֲזָבַ֣נִי · has forsaken me
    But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
  18. Isaiah 54:6עֲזוּבָ֛ה · deserted
    For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
  19. Isaiah 54:7עֲזַבְתִּ֑יךְ · I forsook you
    “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
  20. Isaiah 55:7יַעֲזֹ֤ב · forsake
    Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
  21. Isaiah 58:2עָזָ֔ב · forsake
    For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
  22. Isaiah 60:15עֲזוּבָ֥ה · forsaken
    Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.
  23. Isaiah 62:4עֲזוּבָ֗ה · Forsaken
    No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.
  24. Isaiah 62:12נֶעֱזָֽבָה׃ס · Forsaken
    And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
  25. Isaiah 65:11עֹזְבֵ֣י · who forsake
    But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
  26. Jeremiah 1:16עֲזָב֗וּנִי · they have forsaken Me
    I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, and they have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
  27. Jeremiah 2:13עָזְב֜וּ · They have forsaken Me
    “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
  28. Jeremiah 2:17עָזְבֵךְ֙ · by forsaking
    Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
  29. Jeremiah 2:19עָזְבֵ֖ךְ · for you to forsake
    Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
  30. Jeremiah 4:29עֲזוּבָ֔ה · is abandoned
    Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
  31. Jeremiah 5:7עֲזָב֔וּנִי · have forsaken Me
    “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
  32. Jeremiah 5:19עֲזַבְתֶּ֤ם · you have forsaken
    And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
  33. Jeremiah 9:2וְאֶֽעֶזְבָה֙ · I would abandon
    If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
  34. Jeremiah 9:13עָזְבָם֙ · they have forsaken
    And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
  35. Jeremiah 9:19עָזַ֣בְנוּ · we have abandoned
    For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
  36. Jeremiah 12:7עָזַ֙בְתִּי֙ · I have forsaken
    I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.
  37. Jeremiah 14:5וְעָז֑וֹב · deserts
    Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
  38. Jeremiah 16:11 (2×)עָזְב֨וּ · have forsaken; עָזָ֔בוּ · They abandoned Me
    Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
  39. Jeremiah 17:11יַעַזְבֶ֔נּוּ · his riches will desert him
    Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
  40. Jeremiah 17:13 (2×)עֹזְבֶ֖יךָ · who abandon You; עָזְב֛וּ · they have abandoned
    O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
  41. Jeremiah 18:14הֲיַעֲזֹ֥ב · ever leave
    Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
  42. Jeremiah 19:4עֲזָבֻ֗נִי · they have abandoned Me
    …because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
  43. Jeremiah 22:9עָֽזְב֔וּ · they have forsaken
    Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
  44. Jeremiah 25:38עָזַ֥ב · He has left
    He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
  45. Jeremiah 48:28עִזְב֤וּ · Abandon
    Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
  46. Jeremiah 49:11עָזְבָ֥ה · Abandon
    Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
  47. Jeremiah 49:25עֻזְּבָ֖ה · forsaken
    How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?