אָבַד
a.vad
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
a. of divine judgment
2. object name of kings (fig.)
Aramaic equivalent: a.vad (אֲבַד "to destroy" H0007)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 174 verses
- Ezekiel 25:16 וְהַ֣אֲבַדְתִּ֔י
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.
- Ezekiel 26:17 אָבַ֔דְתְּ
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!
- Ezekiel 28:16 וָֽאַבֶּדְךָ֙
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.
- Ezekiel 30:13 וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֨י
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.
- Ezekiel 32:13 וְהַֽאֲבַדְתִּי֙
I will slaughter all her cattle beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, and no cattle hooves will disturb them.
- Ezekiel 34:4 הָאֹבֶ֖דֶת
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.
- Ezekiel 34:16 הָאֹבֶ֤דֶת
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.’
- Ezekiel 37:11 וְאָבְדָ֥ה
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.’
- Joel 1:11 אָבַ֖ד
Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
- Amos 1:8 וְאָֽבְדוּ֙
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.
- Amos 2:14 וְאָבַ֤ד
Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
- Amos 3:15 וְאָבְד֞וּ
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.
- Obadiah 1:8 וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֤י
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?
- Obadiah 1:12 אָבְדָ֑ם
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.
- Jonah 1:6 נֹאבֵֽד׃
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.”
- Jonah 1:14 נֹאבְדָ֗ה
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.”
- Jonah 3:9 נֹאבֵֽד׃
Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
- Jonah 4:10 אָבָֽד׃
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.
- Micah 4:9 אָבָ֔ד
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?
- Micah 5:10 וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֖י
“In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.
- Micah 7:2 אָבַ֤ד
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.
- Zephaniah 2:5 וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֖יךְ
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.”
- Zephaniah 2:13 וִֽיאַבֵּ֖ד
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
- Zechariah 9:5 וְאָ֤בַד
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.
