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אָבַד

a.vadto perishHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb184 occurrences25 books174 verses

Definition

a primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Traditional renderings: break, destroy(-uction), not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, × and surely, take, be undone, × utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אָבַד:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

184 total
  1. Jeremiah 51:18יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃ · they will perish
    They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
  2. Jeremiah 51:55וְאִבַּ֥ד · He will silence
    For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.
  3. Lamentations 2:9אִבַּ֥ד · He has destroyed
    Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
  4. Lamentations 3:18אָבַ֣ד · has perished
    So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
  5. Ezekiel 6:3וְאִבַּדְתִּ֖י · and I will destroy
    You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
  6. Ezekiel 7:26תֹּאבַ֣ד · will perish
    Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
  7. Ezekiel 12:22וְאָבַ֖ד · fails
    “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?
  8. Ezekiel 19:5אָבְדָ֖ה · was lost
    When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
  9. Ezekiel 22:27לְאַבֵּ֣ד · and destroying
    Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
  10. Ezekiel 25:7וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֖יךָ · and exterminate you
    …therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’
  11. Ezekiel 25:16וְהַ֣אֲבַדְתִּ֔י · and destroy
    …therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.
  12. Ezekiel 26:17אָבַ֔דְתְּ · you have perished
    Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!
  13. Ezekiel 28:16וָֽאַבֶּדְךָ֙ · and I banished you
    By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
  14. Ezekiel 30:13וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֨י · I will destroy
    This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.
  15. Ezekiel 32:13וְהַֽאֲבַדְתִּי֙ · I will slaughter
    I will slaughter all her cattle beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, and no cattle hooves will disturb them.
  16. Ezekiel 34:4הָאֹבֶ֖דֶת · the lost
    You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
  17. Ezekiel 34:16הָאֹבֶ֤דֶת · the lost
    I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
  18. Ezekiel 37:11וְאָבְדָ֥ה · has perished
    Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
  19. Joel 1:11אָבַ֖ד · has perished
    Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
  20. Amos 1:8וְאָֽבְדוּ֙ · will perish
    I will cut off the ruler of Ashdod and the one who wields the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,” says the Lord GOD.
  21. Amos 2:14וְאָבַ֤ד · will fail
    Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
  22. Amos 3:15וְאָבְד֞וּ · will also perish
    I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.
  23. Obadiah 1:8וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֤י · destroy
    In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
  24. Obadiah 1:12אָבְדָ֑ם · of their destruction
    But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
  25. Jonah 1:6נֹאבֵֽד׃ · we may not perish
    The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
  26. Jonah 1:14נֹאבְדָ֗ה · let us perish
    So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”
  27. Jonah 3:9נֹאבֵֽד׃ · perish
    Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
  28. Jonah 4:10אָבָֽד׃ · and perished
    But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
  29. Micah 4:9אָבָ֔ד · perished
    Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?
  30. Micah 5:10וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֖י · and wreck
    “In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.
  31. Micah 7:2אָבַ֤ד · has perished
    The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
  32. Zephaniah 2:5וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֖יךְ · I will destroy you
    Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”
  33. Zephaniah 2:13וִֽיאַבֵּ֖ד · and destroy
    And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
  34. Zechariah 9:5וְאָ֤בַד · There will cease to be
    Ashkelon will see and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, as will Ekron, for her hope will wither. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.