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:
Proverbs 15:10: "Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die."
Proverbs 27:10: "Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's"
Proverbs 28:4: " They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend"
Proverbs 28:13: "shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy."
Isaiah 1:4: "of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked"
Isaiah 1:28: "of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed."
Isaiah 7:16: "that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings."
Isaiah 10:3: "whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?"
Isaiah 10:14: "of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth;"
Isaiah 17:2: "The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid."
Isaiah 17:9: "shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left"
Isaiah 17:9: "bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel:"
Isaiah 18:6: " They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer"
Isaiah 27:10: "shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed,"
Isaiah 32:14: "shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for"
Isaiah 41:17: "them, I the God of Israel will not forsake"
Isaiah 42:16: "things will I do unto them, and not forsake"
Isaiah 49:14: "But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten"
Isaiah 54:6: "the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth,"
Isaiah 54:7: "For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather"
Isaiah 55:7: "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto"
Isaiah 58:2: "as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God:"
Isaiah 60:15: "Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal"
Isaiah 62:4: "Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed"
Isaiah 62:12: "Sought out, A city not forsaken."
Isaiah 65:11: "But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare"
Jeremiah 1:16: "all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshiped"
Jeremiah 2:13: "have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out"
Jeremiah 2:17: "Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when"
Jeremiah 2:19: "that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear"
Jeremiah 4:29: "into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man"
Jeremiah 5:7: "shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full,"
Jeremiah 5:19: "all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange"
Jeremiah 9:2: "Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go"
Jeremiah 9:13: "And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set"
Jeremiah 9:19: "are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings"
Jeremiah 12:7: " I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given"
Jeremiah 14:5: "the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass."
Jeremiah 16:11: "unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked"
Jeremiah 16:11: "other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;"
Jeremiah 17:11: "riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be"
Jeremiah 17:13: "the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth,"
Jeremiah 17:13: "me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living"
Jeremiah 18:14: " Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing"
Jeremiah 19:4: "Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense"
Jeremiah 22:9: "Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God,"
Jeremiah 25:38: " He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because"
Jeremiah 48:28: "O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove"
Jeremiah 49:11: " Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in"
Jeremiah 49:25: "is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!"
