H6: אָבַד
ʼâbad · pronounced aw-bad' · “to perish”
Definition
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV translates it as: break, destroy(-uction), [phrase] not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, [idiom] and surely, take, be undone, [idiom] utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal)
1a1) perish, die, be exterminated
1a2) perish, vanish (fig.)
1a3) be lost, strayed
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate
1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.)
1b3) cause to stray, lose
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to destroy, put to death
1c1a) of divine judgment
1c2) object name of kings (fig.)
Aramaic equivalent: a.vad (אֲבַד "to destroy" H0007)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6 is translated
- them ×11
- they will perish ×11
- i will destroy ×10
- destroy ×9
- it will be lost ×8
- it will perish ×7
- you will perish ×6
- it has perished ×6
- you will destroy ×6
- you ×6
- ! ×5
- we will perish ×4
Bible verses with H6 (ʼâbad)
ʼâbad appears in 174 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Exodus 10:7
And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
- Leviticus 23:30
And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
- Leviticus 26:38
And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
- Numbers 16:33
They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
- Numbers 17:12
And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
- Numbers 21:29
Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
- Numbers 21:30
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
- Numbers 24:19
Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
- Numbers 33:52
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
- Deuteronomy 4:26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 7:10
And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
- Deuteronomy 7:20
Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 7:24
And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
- Deuteronomy 8:19
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
- Deuteronomy 8:20
As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God.
- Deuteronomy 9:3
Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.
- Deuteronomy 11:4
And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day;
- Deuteronomy 11:17
And then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.
- Deuteronomy 12:2
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
- Deuteronomy 12:3
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
- Deuteronomy 22:3
In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
- Deuteronomy 26:5
And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
- Deuteronomy 28:20
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
- Deuteronomy 28:22
The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:51
And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
All 174 references
- Deuteronomy 28:63
- Deuteronomy 30:18
- Deuteronomy 32:28
- Joshua 7:7
- Joshua 23:13
- Joshua 23:16
- Judges 5:31
- 1 Samuel 9:3
- 1 Samuel 9:20
- 2 Samuel 1:27
- 2 Kings 9:8
- 2 Kings 10:19
- 2 Kings 11:1
- 2 Kings 13:7
- 2 Kings 19:18
- 2 Kings 21:3
- 2 Kings 24:2
- Esther 3:9
- Esther 3:13
- Esther 4:7
- Esther 4:14
- Esther 4:16
- Esther 7:4
- Esther 8:5
- Esther 8:11
- Esther 9:6
- Esther 9:12
- Esther 9:24
- Job 3:3
- Job 4:7
- Job 4:9
- Job 4:11
- Job 4:20
- Job 6:18
- Job 8:13
- Job 11:20
- Job 12:23
- Job 14:19
- Job 18:17
- Job 20:7
- Job 29:13
- Job 30:2
- Job 31:19
- Psalms 1:6
- Psalms 2:12
- Psalms 5:6
- Psalms 9:3
- Psalms 9:5
- Psalms 9:6
- Psalms 9:18
- Psalms 10:16
- Psalms 21:10
- Psalms 31:12
- Psalms 37:20
- Psalms 41:5
- Psalms 49:10
- Psalms 68:2
- Psalms 73:27
- Psalms 80:16
- Psalms 83:17
- Psalms 92:9
- Psalms 102:26
- Psalms 112:10
- Psalms 119:92
- Psalms 119:95
- Psalms 119:176
- Psalms 142:4
- Psalms 143:12
- Psalms 146:4
- Proverbs 1:32
- Proverbs 10:28
- Proverbs 11:7
- Proverbs 11:10
- Proverbs 19:9
- Proverbs 21:28
- Proverbs 28:28
- Proverbs 29:3
- Proverbs 31:6
- Ecclesiastes 3:6
- Ecclesiastes 5:14
- Ecclesiastes 7:7
- Ecclesiastes 7:15
- Ecclesiastes 9:6
- Ecclesiastes 9:18
- Isaiah 26:14
- Isaiah 27:13
- Isaiah 29:14
- Isaiah 37:19
- Isaiah 41:11
- Isaiah 57:1
- Isaiah 60:12
- Jeremiah 1:10
- Jeremiah 4:9
- Jeremiah 6:21
- Jeremiah 7:28
- Jeremiah 9:12
- Jeremiah 10:15
- Jeremiah 12:17
- Jeremiah 15:7
- Jeremiah 18:7
- Jeremiah 18:18
- Jeremiah 23:1
- Jeremiah 25:10
- Jeremiah 25:35
- Jeremiah 27:10
- Jeremiah 27:15
- Jeremiah 31:28
- Jeremiah 40:15
- Jeremiah 46:8
- Jeremiah 48:8
- Jeremiah 48:36
- Jeremiah 48:46
- Jeremiah 49:7
- Jeremiah 49:38
- Jeremiah 50:6
- Jeremiah 51:18
- Jeremiah 51:55
- Lamentations 2:9
- Lamentations 3:18
- Ezekiel 6:3
- Ezekiel 7:26
- Ezekiel 12:22
- Ezekiel 19:5
- Ezekiel 22:27
- Ezekiel 25:7
- Ezekiel 25:16
- Ezekiel 26:17
- Ezekiel 28:16
- Ezekiel 30:13
- Ezekiel 32:13
- Ezekiel 34:4
- Ezekiel 34:16
- Ezekiel 37:11
- Joel 1:11
- Amos 1:8
- Amos 2:14
- Amos 3:15
- Obadiah 1:8
- Obadiah 1:12
- Jonah 1:6
- Jonah 1:14
- Jonah 3:9
- Jonah 4:10
- Micah 4:9
- Micah 5:10
- Micah 7:2
- Zephaniah 2:5
- Zephaniah 2:13
- Zechariah 9:5