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:
Psalms 142:4: "but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul."
Psalms 143:12: "And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for"
Psalms 146:4: "in that very day his thoughts perish."
Proverbs 1:32: "shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy"
Proverbs 10:28: "shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish."
Proverbs 11:7: "man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth."
Proverbs 11:7: "shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth."
Proverbs 11:10: "the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting."
Proverbs 19:9: "be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish."
Proverbs 21:28: "A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly."
Proverbs 28:28: "rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase."
Proverbs 29:3: "his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance."
Proverbs 31:6: "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts."
Ecclesiastes 3:6: "A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;"
Ecclesiastes 5:14: "But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing"
Ecclesiastes 7:7: "maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart."
Ecclesiastes 7:15: "of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth"
Ecclesiastes 9:6: "and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever"
Ecclesiastes 9:18: "than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good."
Isaiah 26:14: "and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish."
Isaiah 27:13: "trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land"
Isaiah 29:14: "and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid."
Isaiah 37:19: "of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed"
Isaiah 41:11: "as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish."
Isaiah 57:1: "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful"
Isaiah 60:12: "that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted."
Jeremiah 1:10: "the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant."
Jeremiah 4:9: "the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished,"
Jeremiah 6:21: "shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish."
Jeremiah 7:28: "receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth."
Jeremiah 9:12: "it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none"
Jeremiah 10:15: "of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish."
Jeremiah 12:17: "they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation,"
Jeremiah 15:7: "in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not"
Jeremiah 18:7: "a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy"
Jeremiah 18:18: "for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise,"
Jeremiah 23:1: "Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith"
Jeremiah 25:10: " Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,"
Jeremiah 25:35: "And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape."
Jeremiah 27:10: "remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish."
Jeremiah 27:15: "in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy"
Jeremiah 31:28: "them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over"
Jeremiah 40:15: "unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?"
Jeremiah 46:8: "I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants"
Jeremiah 48:8: "city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD"
Jeremiah 48:36: "of Kir-heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished."
Jeremiah 48:46: "be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives,"
Jeremiah 49:7: "more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?"
Jeremiah 49:38: "And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes,"
Jeremiah 50:6: "My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains:"
