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:
Jeremiah 51:9: "Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for"
Lamentations 5:20: "Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time?"
Ezekiel 8:12: "seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth."
Ezekiel 9:9: "of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD"
Ezekiel 20:8: "the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out"
Ezekiel 23:8: "Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay"
Ezekiel 23:29: "and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms"
Ezekiel 24:21: "and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword."
Ezekiel 36:4: "to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision"
Daniel 11:30: "he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant."
Hosea 4:10: "and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD."
Jonah 2:8: "They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy."
Zephaniah 2:4: "For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod"
Zechariah 11:17: "Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm,"
Malachi 4:1: "saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch."
