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Strong's #6: 'abad (pronounced aw-bad')

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




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âbad

1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed

1a) (Qal)

1a1) perish, die, be exterminated

1a2) perish, vanish (figuratively)

1a3) be lost, strayed

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up

1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (figuratively)

1b3) cause to stray, lose

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to destroy, put to death

1c1a) of divine judgment

1c2) object name of kings (figuratively)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 184 times:

Esther 3:13: "provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young"
Esther 4:7: "the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy"
Esther 4:14: "from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who"
Esther 4:16: "is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish."
Esther 4:16: "according to the law: and if I perish, I perish."
Esther 7:4: "and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen,"
Esther 8:5: "of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which"
Esther 8:11: "for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power"
Esther 9:6: "the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men."
Esther 9:12: "the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan"
Esther 9:24: "had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot,"
Esther 9:24: "that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy"
Job 3:3: "Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived."
Job 4:7: "Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?"
Job 4:9: "By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed."
Job 4:11: "The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad."
Job 4:20: "They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish forever without any"
Job 6:18: "are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish."
Job 8:13: "God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:"
Job 11:20: "But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up"
Job 12:23: "He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth"
Job 14:19: "the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man."
Job 18:17: "His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street."
Job 20:7: " Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where"
Job 29:13: "The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy."
Job 30:2: "of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?"
Job 31:19: "If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without"
Psalms 1:6: "of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish."
Psalms 2:12: "the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled"
Psalms 5:6: " Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man."
Psalms 9:3: "are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence."
Psalms 9:5: "Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name forever and ever."
Psalms 9:6: "are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them."
Psalms 9:18: "be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever."
Psalms 10:16: "forever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land."
Psalms 21:10: "Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men."
Psalms 31:12: "as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel."
Psalms 37:20: "But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume;"
Psalms 41:5: "of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?"
Psalms 49:10: "likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others."
Psalms 68:2: "before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God."
Psalms 73:27: "For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from"
Psalms 80:16: "It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance."
Psalms 83:17: "and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:"
Psalms 92:9: "for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered."
Psalms 102:26: "They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture"
Psalms 112:10: "and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish."
Psalms 119:92: "thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction."
Psalms 119:95: "The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies."
Psalms 119:176: "I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget"









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