Strong's #5800: `azab (pronounced aw-zab')
a primitive root; to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.:--commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, X surely.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛âzab
1) to leave, loose, forsake
1a) (Qal) to leave
1a1) to depart from, leave behind, leave, let alone
1a2) to leave, abandon, forsake, neglect, apostatise
1a3) to let loose, set free, let go, free
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be left to
1b2) to be forsaken
1c) (Pual) to be deserted
2) to restore, repair
2a) (Qal) to repair
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1594, 1595
Usage:
This word is used 215 times:
2 Chronicles 34:25: "Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger"
Ezra 8:22: "him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake"
Ezra 9:9: "were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto"
Ezra 9:10: "after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,"
Nehemiah 3:8: "Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall."
Nehemiah 4:2: "do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive"
Nehemiah 5:10: "of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury."
Nehemiah 9:17: "to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not."
Nehemiah 9:19: "Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar"
Nehemiah 9:28: "evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned,"
Nehemiah 9:31: "sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious"
Nehemiah 10:39: "and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God."
Nehemiah 13:11: "Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place."
Job 6:14: "To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty."
Job 9:27: "I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort"
Job 10:1: "My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness"
Job 18:4: "himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?"
Job 20:13: "Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:"
Job 20:19: "Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he built not;"
Job 39:11: "him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labor to"
Job 39:14: "Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,"
Psalms 9:10: "in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek"
Psalms 10:14: "to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper"
Psalms 16:10: "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One"
Psalms 22:1: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words"
Psalms 27:9: "thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation."
Psalms 27:10: "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up."
Psalms 37:8: "Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise"
Psalms 37:25: "yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread."
Psalms 37:28: "the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved"
Psalms 37:33: "The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged."
Psalms 38:10: "My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also"
Psalms 38:21: " Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from"
Psalms 40:12: "able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth"
Psalms 49:10: "the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others."
Psalms 71:9: "Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth."
Psalms 71:11: "Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver"
Psalms 71:18: "I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed thy strength"
Psalms 89:30: "If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;"
Psalms 94:14: "cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance."
Psalms 119:8: "I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly."
Psalms 119:53: "Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law."
Psalms 119:87: "consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts."
Proverbs 2:13: " Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;"
Proverbs 2:17: " Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God."
Proverbs 3:3: "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write"
Proverbs 4:2: "I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law."
Proverbs 4:6: " Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep"
Proverbs 9:6: " Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding."
Proverbs 10:17: "of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth."
