H6 אָבַד
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 184 KJV occurrences
אָבַד
ʼâbad · aw-bad'
Definition
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV Renderings
break, destroy(-uction), [phrase] not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, [idiom] and surely, take, be undone, [idiom] utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 184)
- Exodus 10:7And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
- Deuteronomy 12:2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
- 2 Kings 19:18And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
- Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
- Psalms 80:16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
- Ecclesiastes 7:7¶ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
- Jeremiah 25:35And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
- Ezekiel 26:17And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!