ʼâbad — H6

H6 · Hebrew — אבד

Pronunciation: aw-bad'

Definition

verb

properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)

  1. perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed
    1. (Qal)
      1. perish, die, be exterminated
      2. perish, vanish (fig.)
      3. be lost, strayed
    2. (Piel)
      1. to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate
      2. to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.)
      3. cause to stray, lose
    3. (Hiphil)
      1. to destroy, put to death
        1. of divine judgment
      2. object name of kings (fig.)

Usually translated as

perish, destroy, destruction, not escape, lose, take, be undone, have no way to flee, break, fail, spend, and surely, utterly, be void of

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

ʼâbad occurs 184 times in 174 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Leviticus (2), Numbers (6), Deuteronomy (19), Joshua (3), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (2), 2 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (7), Esther (11), Job (15), Psalms (26), Proverbs (9), Ecclesiastes (6), Isaiah (7), Jeremiah (26), Lamentations (2), Ezekiel (14), Joel (1), Amos (3), Obadiah (2), Jonah (4), Micah (3), Zephaniah (2), Zechariah (1)

Strong's Lexicon — A