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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Hebrew - English Dictionary

H6 - Destroy

Strong's No.:H6

Hebrew:אָבַד

Transliteration:ʼâbad

Phonetic:aw-bad'

Word Origin:A primitive root

Bible Usage:{break} destroy ({-uction}) + not {escape} {fail} {lose} (cause {to} make) {perish} {spend} X-(idiom) and {surely} {take} be {undone} X-(idiom) {utterly} be void {of} have no way to flee.

Part of Speech:Verb

Strongs
Definition:

properly to wander {away} that is lose oneself; by implication to perish ({causatively} destroy)


Brown Driver
Biggs Definition:

1. perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed

a. (Qal)

1. perish, die, be exterminated

2. perish, vanish (fig.)

3. be lost, strayed

b. (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

c. (Hiphil)

1. to destroy, put to death 1c

d. of divine judgment

1. object name of kings (fig.)


Bible References:
Destroy

Translation
Occurrences:
broken ( 1 )
destroy ( 40 )
destroyed ( 17 )
destroyest ( 1 )
destroyeth ( 4 )
destruction ( 1 )
failed ( 1 )
faileth ( 1 )
lose ( 1 )
lost ( 9 )
perish ( 75 )
perished ( 17 )
perisheth ( 6 )
spendeth ( 1 )
take ( 1 )
undone ( 1 )
void ( 1 )

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.