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:
Jeremiah 51:18: "of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish."
Jeremiah 51:55: "hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves"
Lamentations 2:9: "Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes"
Lamentations 3:18: "And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:"
Ezekiel 6:3: "will bring a sword you, and I will destroy your high places."
Ezekiel 7:26: "a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel"
Ezekiel 12:22: "are prolonged, and every vision faileth?"
Ezekiel 19:5: "that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps,"
Ezekiel 22:27: "the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain."
Ezekiel 25:7: "and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know"
Ezekiel 25:16: "and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast."
Ezekiel 26:17: "for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned"
Ezekiel 28:16: "therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst"
Ezekiel 30:13: "saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph;"
Ezekiel 32:13: " I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters;"
Ezekiel 34:4: "that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled"
Ezekiel 34:16: "I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen"
Ezekiel 37:11: "Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off"
Joel 1:11: "because the harvest of the field is perished."
Amos 1:8: "mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord"
Amos 2:14: "Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force,"
Amos 3:15: "house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith"
Obadiah 1:8: "day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding"
Obadiah 1:12: "over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day"
Jonah 1:6: "thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not."
Jonah 1:14: "O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay"
Jonah 3:9: "and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?"
Jonah 4:10: "which came up in a night, and perished in a night:"
Micah 4:9: "is there no king in thee? is thy counselor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail."
Micah 5:10: "that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:"
Micah 7:2: "The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all"
Zephaniah 2:5: "you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant."
Zephaniah 2:13: "his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make"
Zechariah 9:5: "for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon"
