Hebrew verb · H5800
עָזַב
azabaw-zab'
to leave: forsake; to restore; to leave: release; Forsaken; to leave: neglect
215 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâzab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5800is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 29 of 39Old Testament books
- 171spellings
- 5meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5800
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
The King James renders it: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, [idiom] surely.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
azab is rendered "to leave: forsake; to restore; to leave: release; Forsaken; to leave: neglect". It stands 215 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-nine books.
- Twenty-five of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists five meanings for it, beginning with "to leave: forsake".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- The Greek text spells it 171 different ways.
The first use
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Genesis 2:24יַֽעֲזָב־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twenty-nine of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries five meanings: to leave: forsake, and to restore, and to leave: release, and Forsaken, and to leave: neglect.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to leave: forsakeStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife… |
| to restoreStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| to leave: releaseStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| ForsakenStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| to leave: neglectStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he left9
- they forsook8
- they have forsaken me7
- abandoned6
- and they abandoned6
- they have forsaken6
- I will leave you5
- you forsake me5
- you have forsaken5
- and freed4
- and they forsook4
- forsake4
and 123 more, 215 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 215, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
171 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- עָזַ֥ב5
- אֶעֶזְבֶ֑ךָּ4
- וַיַּעֲזֹ֣ב4
- וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛ב4
- עֲזָב֗וּנִי4
- וַיַּעַזְב֤וּ3
- וְעָז֖וּב3
- עָֽזְב֔וּ3
- עָזְב֣וּ3
- עֲזַבְתֶּ֣ם3
- תַּעֲזֹ֣ב3
- וַיַּעֲזֹ֤ב2
and 159 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural18HVqp3cp
- Hc/Vqw3ms15Hc/Vqw3ms
- Hc/Vqw3mp12Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular11HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular8HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural7HVqp2mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular7HVqp3cp/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular6HVqi1cs/Sp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular5HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular5HVqj2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular5HVqsfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular4HC/Vqsmsa
Genesis
eleven uses
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- יַֽעֲזָב־yaazov-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he leaves
saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
- עָזַ֥בʾazavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has left
Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
- אֶֽעֱזָבְךָ֔ʾeezavekhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will abandon you
So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
- וַיַּעֲזֹ֣בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he left
She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
- וַיַּעֲזֹ֤בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he left
When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,
- עָזַ֥בʾazavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had left
When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
- וַיַּעֲזֹ֤בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he left
but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
- וַיַּעֲזֹ֥בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he left
So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
- לַעֲזֹ֣בlaazopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to leave
- וְעָזַ֥בveazavHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will leave
along with all of Joseph’s household, and his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
- עָזְב֖וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they left
Exodus
five uses
“So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”
- עֲזַבְתֶּ֣ןʾazavtenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine pluraltagged: have you left
but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.
- וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he left
If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.
- מֵעֲזֹ֣בmeazopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from leaving
- עָזֹ֥בazoverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to let loose
- תַּעֲזֹ֖בtaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will let loose
Leviticus
three uses
You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
- תַּעֲזֹ֣בtaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will leave
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”
- תַּעֲזֹ֣בtaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will leave
For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
- תֵּעָזֵ֨בteazevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be forsaken
Numbers
one use
“Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
- תַּעֲזֹ֣בtaazoverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you leave
Deuteronomy
nine uses
and be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.
- תַּעֲזֹ֖בtaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you should neglect
And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
- תַֽעַזְבֶ֑נּוּtaazvenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will neglect him
The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.
- עֲזַבְתָּֽנִי׃ʾazavtaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you have forsaken me
And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
- עָֽזְב֔וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they forsook
Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.”
- יַעַזְבֶֽךָּ׃ פyaazvekaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he will forsake you
The LORD Himself goes before you; He will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
- יַֽעַזְבֶ֑ךָּyaazvekaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he will forsake you
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
- וַעֲזָבַ֕נִיvaazavaniHc/Vqq3ms/Sp1bstagged: and it will forsake me
On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
- וַעֲזַבְתִּ֞יםvaazavtimHc/Vqq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will forsake them
For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
- וְעָזֽוּב׃veazuvconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and freed
Joshua
five uses
No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
- אֶעֶזְבֶֽךָּ׃ʾeezvekaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will leave you
Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.
- וַיַּעַזְב֤וּvaiyaazvuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they left
All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day, but have kept the charge given you by the LORD your God.
- עֲזַבְתֶּ֣םʾazavtemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have forsaken
The people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!
- מֵעֲזֹ֖בmeazopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from forsaking
If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”
- תַֽעַזְבוּ֙taazvuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will forsake
Judges
six uses
Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,
- וַיַּעַזְב֞וּvaiyaazvuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they forsook
for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
- וַיַּעַזְב֖וּvaiyaazvuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they forsook
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
- עָזַ֥בʾazavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he left
And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
- וַיַּעַזְב֥וּvaiyaazvuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they forsook
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”
- עָזַ֙בְנוּ֙ʾazavnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have forsaken
But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
- עֲזַבְתֶּ֣םʾazavtemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have forsaken
Ruth
four uses
But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
- לְעָזְבֵ֖ךְleazevekhpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: to abandon you
Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
- וַתַּֽעַזְבִ֞יvataazviHc/Vqw2fstagged: and you left
Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”
- וַעֲזַבְתֶּ֥םvaazavtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will leave
Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”
- עָזַ֣בʾazavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has forsaken
1 Samuel
four uses
Just as they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking Me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.
- וַיַּ֣עַזְבֻ֔נִיvaiyaazvuniHc/Vqw3mp/Sp1bstagged: and they have forsaken me
Then they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, that we may serve You.’
- עָזַ֙בְנוּ֙ʾazavnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have forsaken
Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.
- וַיַּעַזְבֵ֧נִיvaiyaazveniHc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bstagged: and he abandoned me
When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.
- וַיַּעַזְב֤וּvaiyaazvuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they abandoned
2 Samuel
two uses
There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
- וַיַּעַזְבוּ־vaiyaazvu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they abandoned
Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.
- וַיַּעֲזֹ֣בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he left
1 Kings
twelve uses
And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”
- אֶעֱזֹ֖בʾeezoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will abandon
May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us nor forsake us.
- יַעַזְבֵ֖נוּyaazvenuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: he forsake us
And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
- עָזְב֜וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they forsook
For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
- עֲזָב֗וּנִיʾazavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have forsaken me
But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
- וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he forsook
And the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the elders
- וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he forsook
Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!
- וְעָז֖וּבveazuvconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and freed
“I have not troubled Israel,” Elijah replied, “but you and your father’s house have, for you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals.
- בַּֽעֲזָבְכֶם֙baazavekhempreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: because have forsaken you
“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”
- עָזְב֤וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have forsaken
“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”
- עָזְב֤וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have forsaken
So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”
- וַיַּעֲזֹ֣בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he left
This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.
- וְעָז֖וּבveazuvconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and freed
2 Kings
eleven uses
and Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
- אֶעֶזְבֶ֑ךָּʾeezvekaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will leave you
And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Jericho.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
- אֶעֶזְבֶ֑ךָּʾeezvekaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will leave you
And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to the Jordan.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.
- אֶעֶזְבֶ֑ךָּʾeezvekaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will leave you
And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
- אֶעֶזְבֶ֑ךָּʾeezvekaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will leave you
Thus the Arameans had arisen and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents and horses and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had run for their lives.
- וַיַּעַזְב֣וּvaiyaazvuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they abandoned
When the king asked the woman, she confirmed it. So the king appointed for her an officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, along with all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the country until now.”
- עָזְבָ֥הʾazevahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she left
The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.
- וְעָז֖וּבveazuvconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and freed
For the LORD saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,
- עָז֔וּבʾazuvverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: freed
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
- וַיַּעַזְב֗וּvaiyaazvuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they forsook
He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
- וַיַּעֲזֹ֕בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he forsook
because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place and will not be quenched.’
- עֲזָב֗וּנִיʾazavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have forsaken me
1 Chronicles
five uses
When all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.
- וַיַּעַזְב֤וּvaiyaazvuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they abandoned
There the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.
- וַיַּעַזְבוּ־vaiyaazvu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they abandoned
So David left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to minister there regularly according to the daily requirements,
- וַיַּֽעֲזָב־vaiyaazov-Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he left
As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
- תַּֽעַזְבֶ֖נּוּtaazvenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will forsake him
David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you before all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.
- יַֽעַזְבֶ֔ךָּyaazvekaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he will forsake you
2 Chronicles
twenty-three uses
But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
- וַעֲזַבְתֶּם֙vaazavtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will forsake
And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
- עָֽזְב֜וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they forsook
But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
- וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he abandoned
And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
- וַֽיַּעֲזֹב֙vaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he abandoned
For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.
- עָזְב֣וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they forsook
After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD.
- עָזַ֖בʾazavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he forsook
Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.’”
- עֲזַבְתֶּ֣םʾazavtemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have abandoned
- עָזַ֥בְתִּיʾazavtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have abandoned
But as for us, the LORD is our God. We have not forsaken Him; the priests who minister to the LORD are sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.
- עֲזַבְנֻ֑הוּʾazavnuhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: we have forsaken him
Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.
- עֲזַבְתֶּ֥םʾazavtemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have forsaken
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
- תַּעַזְבֻ֖הוּtaazvuhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will forsake him
- יַעֲזֹ֥בyaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will forsake
So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled against his rule at the same time, because Jehoram had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.
- עָזַ֔בʾazavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had forsaken
They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
- וַיַּֽעַזְב֗וּvaiyaazvuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they abandoned
Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”
- עֲזַבְתֶּ֥םʾazavtemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have forsaken
- וַיַּֽעֲזֹ֥בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has forsaken
Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army. Because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, judgment was executed on Joash.
- עָֽזְב֔וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had forsaken
And when the Arameans had withdrawn, they left Joash severely wounded. His own servants conspired against him for shedding the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
- עָזְב֣וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had left
For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.
- בְּעָזְבָ֕םbeazevampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: because had forsaken they
So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the leaders and all the assembly.
- וַיַּעֲזֹ֣בvaiyaazoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he left
For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.
- וַיַּֽעַזְבֻ֑הוּvaiyaazvuhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they forsook him
And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
- עֲזָב֖וֹazavoverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he left him
because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out upon this place and will not be quenched.’
- עֲזָב֗וּנִיʾazavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have forsaken me
Ezra
three uses
For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”
- עֹזְבָֽיו׃ʾozevavverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: forsake him
Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
- עֲזָבָ֖נוּʾazavanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: he has abandoned us
And now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments
- עָזַ֖בְנוּʾazavnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have forsaken
Nehemiah
nine uses
Next to them, Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs, and next to him, Hananiah son of the perfumer made repairs. They fortified Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.
- וַיַּֽעַזְבוּ֙vaiyaazvuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they restored
before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
- הֲיַעַזְב֨וּhayaazvuquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: ¿ will they restore
I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.
- נַֽעַזְבָה־naazvah-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us abandon
They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
- עֲזַבְתָּֽם׃ʾazavtamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you abandoned them
You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
- עֲזַבְתָּ֖םʾazavtamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you abandoned them
But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion.
- וַתַּֽעַזְבֵ֞םvataazvemHc/Vqw2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you abandoned them
But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.
- עֲזַבְתָּ֑םʾazavtamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you abandoned them
For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”
- נַעֲזֹ֖בnaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will neglect
So I rebuked the officials and asked, “Why has the house of God been neglected?” Then I gathered the Levites and singers together and stationed them at their posts,
- נֶעֱזַ֣בneezavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has it been neglected
Job
eight uses
A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- יַעֲזֽוֹב׃yaazovverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will forsake
If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
- אֶעֶזְבָ֖הʾeezvahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will let loose
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- אֶֽעֶזְבָ֣הʾeezvahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will let loose
You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
- תֵּעָ֣זַבteazavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: may it be abandoned
though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
- יַֽעַזְבֶ֑נָּהyaazvenahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he lets loose it
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
- עָזַ֣בʾazavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has neglected
Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
- וְתַעֲזֹ֖בvetaazoHC/Vqu2mstagged: so you may leave
For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
- תַעֲזֹ֣בtaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it abandons
Psalms
twenty-two uses
Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
- עָזַ֖בְתָּʾazavtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have forsaken
But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- יַעֲזֹ֣בyaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he abandons
For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- תַעֲזֹ֣בtaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will abandon
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
- עֲזַבְתָּ֑נִיʾazavtaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: have you forsaken me
Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
- תַּֽ֝עַזְבֵ֗נִיtaazveniverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you forsake me
Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
- עֲזָב֑וּנִיʾazavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have forsaken me
Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it can only bring harm.
- וַעֲזֹ֣בvaazoconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and forsake
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
- נֶעֱזָ֑בneezavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: forsaken
For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
- יַעֲזֹ֣בyaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will abandon
the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.
- יַעַזְבֶ֣נּוּyaazvenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will abandon him
My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
- עֲזָבַ֣נִיʾazavaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it has left me
Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
- תַּֽעַזְבֵ֥נִיtaazveniverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you forsake me
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
- עֲזָבָֽנִי׃ʾazavaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it has abandoned me
For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.
- וְעָזְב֖וּveazevuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they leave
Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
- תַּעַזְבֵֽנִי׃taazveniverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you forsake me
saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
- עֲזָב֑וֹazavoverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has forsaken him
Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
- תַּעַ֫זְבֵ֥נִיtaazveniverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you forsake me
If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,
- יַֽעַזְב֣וּyaazvuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will forsake
For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
- יַעֲזֹֽב׃yaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will forsake
I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.
- תַּעַזְבֵ֥נִיtaazveniverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you forsake me
Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.
- עֹ֝זְבֵ֗יʾozeveiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: forsake
They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken Your precepts.
- עָזַ֥בְתִּיʾazavtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have forsaken
Proverbs
eleven uses
from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
- הַ֭עֹ֣זְבִיםhaozevimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those leave
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
- הַ֭עֹזֶבֶתhaozevetthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: who leaves
Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- יַעַ֫זְבֻ֥ךָyaazvukhaverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: they leave you
For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive.
- תַּעֲזֹֽבוּ׃taazouverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you neglect
Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.
- תַּעַזְבֶ֥הָtaazvehaverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: you abandon her
Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
- עִזְב֣וּʾizvuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: abandon
Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.
- וְעוֹזֵ֖בveozevconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and neglects
Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.
- לְעֹזֵ֣בleozevpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for forsakes
Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
- תַּעֲזֹ֗בtaazoverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you forsake
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
- עֹזְבֵ֣יʾozeveiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: forsake
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
- וְעֹזֵ֣בveozevconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and forsakes
Isaiah
twenty-two uses
Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
- עָזְב֣וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have forsaken
But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
- וְעֹזְבֵ֥יveozeveiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and forsake
For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
- תֵּעָזֵ֤בteazevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be forsaken
What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
- תַעַזְב֖וּtaazvuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: will you leave
My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
- עֲזֻב֔וֹתazuvotverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: abandoned
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
- עֲזֻב֖וֹתazuvotverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: abandoned
In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.
- כַּעֲזוּבַ֤תkaazuvatpreposition + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like forsaken of
- עָזְב֔וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they abandoned
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.
- יֵעָזְב֤וּyeazevuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be abandoned
For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
- וְנֶעֱזָ֖בveneezavconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and forsaken
For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
- עֻזָּ֑בʾuzavverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be abandoned
The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- אֶעֶזְבֵֽם׃ʾeezvemverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will forsake them
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
- עֲזַבְתִּֽים׃ʾazavtimverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will abandon them
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
- עֲזָבַ֣נִיʾazavaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he has forsaken me
For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
- עֲזוּבָ֛הʾazuvahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: abandoned
“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
- עֲזַבְתִּ֑יךְʾazavtikhverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: I abandoned you
Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
- יַעֲזֹ֤בyaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let him forsake
For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
- עָזָ֔בʾazavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has forsaken
Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.
- עֲזוּבָ֥הʾazuvahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: forsaken
No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.
- עֲזוּבָ֗הʾazuvahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: abandoned
And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
- נֶעֱזָֽבָה׃ סneezavahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been forsaken
But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
- עֹזְבֵ֣יʾozeveiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: forsake
Jeremiah
twenty-five uses
I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.
- עֲזָב֗וּנִיʾazavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have forsaken me
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- עָזְב֜וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have forsaken
Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
- עָזְבֵךְ֙ʾazevekhverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: by forsaking you
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- עָזְבֵ֖ךְʾazevekhverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: forsaking you
Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
- עֲזוּבָ֔הʾazuvahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: abandoned
“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
- עֲזָב֔וּנִיʾazavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have forsaken me
And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
- עֲזַבְתֶּ֤םʾazavtemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you forsook
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
- וְאֶֽעֶזְבָה֙veeezvahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I will leave
And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
- עָזְבָם֙ʾazevamverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: have forsaken they
For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
- עָזַ֣בְנוּʾazavnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have left
I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.
- עָזַ֙בְתִּי֙ʾazavtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have forsaken
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
- וְעָז֑וֹבveazovconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and it has abandoned
Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
- עָזְב֨וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they forsook
- עָזָ֔בוּʾazavuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they forsook
Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
- יַעַזְבֶ֔נּוּyaazvenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will leave him
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
- עֹזְבֶ֖יךָʾozeveikhaverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: forsake you
- עָזְב֛וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have forsaken
Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
- הֲיַעֲזֹ֥בhayaazoquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ does it leave
because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
- עֲזָבֻ֗נִיʾazavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have forsaken me
Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
- עָֽזְב֔וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they forsook
He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
- עָזַ֥בʾazavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has left
Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
- עִזְב֤וּʾizvuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: abandon
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
- עָזְבָ֥הʾazevahverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: leave
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
- עֻזְּבָ֖הʾuzevahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been forsaken
“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
- עִזְב֕וּהָʾizvuhaverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: leave it
Lamentations
one use
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
- תַּֽעַזְבֵ֖נוּtaazvenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: do you abandon? us
Ezekiel
seven uses
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
- עָזַ֥בʾazavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has forsaken
He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
- עָזַ֤בʾazavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has forsaken
But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.
- עָזָ֑בוּʾazavuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they forsook
She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.
- עָזָ֔בָהʾazavahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she forsook
They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity
- וַעֲזָב֖וּךְvaazavukhHc/Vqq3cp/Sp2fstagged: and they will leave you
Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’
- עֲזַבְתֶּ֖םʾazavtemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have left
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
- הַנֶּעֱזָב֔וֹתhaneezavotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: the forsaken
Daniel
one use
Ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and rage against the holy covenant and do damage. So he will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.
- עֹזְבֵ֖יʾozeveiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: forsake
Hosea
one use
They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.
- עָזְב֖וּʾazevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have forsaken
Jonah
one use
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
- יַעֲזֹֽבוּ׃yaazouverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they abandon
Zephaniah
one use
For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.
- עֲזוּבָ֣הʾazuvahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: abandoned
Zechariah
one use
Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”
- עֹזְבִ֣יʾozeviverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: abandons
Malachi
one use
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
- יַעֲזֹ֥בyaazoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will leave
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