Word Study · Strong's H9 · Hebrew
אֲבֵדָה
abedah
ab-ay-daw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼăbêdâh
“concrete, something lost”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
concrete, something lost; abstract, destruction, i.e. Hades
Rendered in the KJV as
lost.
- 4occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 4inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 4 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 4
- אֲבֵדָ֗ה1
- אֲבֵדָ֛ה1
- אֲבֵדַ֥ת1
- הָאֲבֵדָ֖ה1
How it is rendered · 4
- a thing lost1
- the thing lost1
- the thing lost of1
- thing lost1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- noun · feminine singular2
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcfsa · 2
- HNcfsc · 1
- HTd/Ncfsa · 1
All 4, in canonical order
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Where this word lives
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Leviticus2 occurrences
- Leviticus 6:3אֲבֵדָ֛הʾavedahnoun · feminine singularor finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit—here: a thing lost
- Leviticus 6:4הָאֲבֵדָ֖הhaavedahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singularonce he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,here: the thing lost