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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - אָבַד

אָבַד

H6

Transliteration: ʼâbad

Pronunciation: aw-bad'

Definition: break


Original: אבד

Transliteration: 'âbad

Phonetic: aw-bad'

BDB Definition:

  1. perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed
    1. (Qal)
      1. perish, die, be exterminated
      2. perish, vanish (figuratively)
      3. be lost, strayed
    2. (Piel)
      1. to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up
      2. to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (figuratively)
      3. cause to stray, lose
    3. (Hiphil)
      1. to destroy, put to death
        1. of divine judgment
      2. object name of kings (figuratively)

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 2

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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