Hebrew verb · H6
אָבַד
abadaw-bad'
to perish
184 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼâbad
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 25 of 39Old Testament books
- 150spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
The King James renders it: 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.
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
abad is rendered "to perish". It stands 184 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-five books.
- Twenty-six of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 10:7Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is in ruins?”
- The Greek text spells it 150 different ways.
The first use
Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is in ruins?”
Exodus 10:7אָבְדָ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twenty-five of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and I will destroy9
- they will perish8
- and to destroy6
- it has perished6
- it will be lost6
- and you will perish5
- it will perish5
- you will perish5
- and you will destroy4
- to destroy4
- we will perish4
- and they will perish3
and 89 more, 184 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.
All 184, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
150 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
- יֹאבֵ֑דוּ5
- יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃4
- תֹּאבֵֽד׃4
- אָבַ֖ד3
- אָבַ֣ד3
- אֹבֵ֣ד3
- וְאָבַ֥ד3
- אָבָ֔ד2
- אָבֹ֖ד2
- אֹ֭בֵד2
- אָבְדָ֖ה2
- אָבְד֥וּ2
and 138 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular14HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural13HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular9HVqi3fs
- Hc/Vhq1cs8Hc/Vhq1cs
- Hc/Vqq3ms8Hc/Vqq3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular8HVqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular7HVqp3fs
- Hc/Vqq2mp5Hc/Vqq2mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVqi3ms
- HC/Vqu3mp4HC/Vqu3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nun4HVqi2mp/Sn
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)3HC/R/Vhcc
Exodus
one use
Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is in ruins?”
- אָבְדָ֖הʾavedahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will perish
Leviticus
two uses
I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day.
- וְהַֽאֲבַדְתִּ֛יvehaavadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy
You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
- וַאֲבַדְתֶּ֖םvaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will perish
Numbers
eight uses
They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
- וַיֹּאבְד֖וּvaiyoeduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they perished
Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!
- אָבַ֖דְנוּʾavadnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will perish
- אָבָֽדְנוּ׃ʾavadnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will perish
Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
- אָבַ֖דְתָּʾavadtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have perished
But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
- אָבַ֥דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has perished
A ruler will come from Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.”
- וְהֶֽאֱבִ֥ידveheevidHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will destroy
you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
- וְאִ֨בַּדְתֶּ֔םveibadtemHc/Vpq2mptagged: and you will destroy
- תְּאַבֵּ֔דוּteabeduverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will destroy
Deuteronomy
twenty-four uses
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
- אָבֹ֣דʾavodverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to perish
- תֹּאבֵדוּן֮toedunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will perish
But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.
- לְהַאֲבִיד֑וֹlehaavidopreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: by destroying him
Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.
- אֲבֹ֗דʾavodverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: perish
He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
- וְהַאֲבַדְתָּ֣vehaavadtaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will destroy
If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
- אָבֹ֖דʾavodverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to perish
- תֹּאבֵדֽוּן׃toedunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will perish
Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
- מַאֲבִ֣ידmaavidverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to destroy
- תֹאבֵד֑וּןtoedunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will perish
But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.
- וְהַֽאַבַדְתָּם֙vehaavadtamHc/Vhq2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you will destroy them
what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;
- וַיְאַבְּדֵ֣םvayabedemHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he destroyed them
or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
- וַאֲבַדְתֶּ֣םvaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will perish
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- אַבֵּ֣דʾabedverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: certainly destroy
- תְּ֠אַבְּדוּןteabedunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will destroy
Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
- וְאִבַּדְתֶּ֣םveibadtemHc/Vpq2mptagged: and you will destroy
And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
- תֹּאבַ֥דtovadverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be lost
and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
- אֹבֵ֣דʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: wandering
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.
- אֲבָדְךָ֙ʾavadekhaverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: perishing you
The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
- אָבְדֶֽךָ׃ʾavedekhaverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: perishing you
They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
- הַאֲבִיד֖וֹhaavidoverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: destroys it
Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
- לְהַאֲבִ֥ידlehaavidpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy
I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
- אָבֹ֖דʾavodverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to perish
- תֹּאבֵד֑וּןtoedunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will perish
Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
- אֹבַ֥דʾovadverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: perishing
Joshua
three uses
“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
- לְהַאֲבִידֵ֑נוּlehaavidenupreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: to destroy us
know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
- אֲבָדְכֶ֗םʾavadekhemverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: perish you
If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”
- וַאֲבַדְתֶּ֣םvaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will perish
Judges
one use
So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
- יֹאבְד֤וּyoeduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: may they perish
1 Samuel
two uses
One day the donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, and Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants and go look for the donkeys.”
- וַתֹּאבַ֙דְנָה֙vatovadnahHc/Vqw3fptagged: and they were lost
As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them, for they have been found. And upon whom is all the desire of Israel, if not upon you and all your father’s house?”
- הָאֹבְד֣וֹתhaoedotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: which were lost
2 Samuel
one use
How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!”
- וַיֹּאבְד֖וּvaiyoeduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they have perished
2 Kings
seven uses
The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.
- וְאָבַ֖דveavadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will perish
Now, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.
- הַאֲבִ֖ידhaavidverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.
- וַתְּאַבֵּ֔דvateabedHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she destroyed
Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
- אִבְּדָם֙ʾibedamverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he had destroyed them
They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
- וַֽיְאַבְּדֽוּם׃vayabedumHc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they have destroyed them
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
- אִבַּ֖דʾibadverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had destroyed
And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
- לְהַֽאֲבִיד֑וֹlehaavidopreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to destroy it
Esther
thirteen uses
If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”
- לְאַבְּדָ֑םleabedampreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to destroy them
And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
- וּלְאַבֵּ֣דuleabedconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy
and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.
- לְאַבְּדָֽם׃leabedampreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to destroy them
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
- תֹּאבֵ֑דוּtoveduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will perish
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
- אָבַ֖דְתִּיʾavadtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have perished
- אָבָֽדְתִּי׃ʾavadetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have perished
For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
- וּלְאַבֵּ֑דuleabedconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
- לְאַבֵּד֙leabedpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy
By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
- וּלְאַבֵּ֜דuleabedconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy
In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
- וְאַבֵּ֔דveabedconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and they destroyed
who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
- וְאַבֵּ֜דveabedconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and they have destroyed
For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.
- לְאַבְּדָ֑םleabedampreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to destroy them
- וּֽלְאַבְּדָֽם׃uleabedamconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and to destroy them
Job
fifteen uses
“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
- יֹ֣אבַדyoadverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it perish
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- אָבָ֑דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: did he perish
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
- יֹאבֵ֑דוּyoveduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they perish
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
- אֹבֵ֣דʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: perishing
They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
- יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃yoveduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they perish
Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
- וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ׃veyoveduHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may perish
Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
- תֹּאבֵֽד׃tovedverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be lost
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
- אָבַ֣דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be lost
He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.
- וַֽיְאַבְּדֵ֑םvayabedemHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he destroyed them
as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
- הֶאֱבַֽדְתָּ׃heevadtaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you destroy
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
- אָ֭בַדʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it perishes
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
- יֹאבֵ֑דyovedverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will perish
The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
- אֹ֭בֵדʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to perish
What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
- אָ֣בַדʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had perished
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
- א֭וֹבֵדʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: was perishing
Psalms
twenty-six uses
For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
- תֹּאבֵֽד׃tovedverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will perish
Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
- וְתֹ֬אבְדוּvetoeduHC/Vqu2mptagged: and you may perish
You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
- תְּאַבֵּד֮teabedverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you destroy
When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.
- וְ֝יֹאבְד֗וּveyoeduHC/Vqu3mptagged: and they may perish
You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.
- אִבַּ֣דְתָּʾibadtaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have destroyed
The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
- אָבַ֖דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has perished
For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
- תֹּאבַ֥דtovadverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be lost
The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
- אָבְד֥וּʾaveduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have perished
You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
- תְּאַבֵּ֑דteabedverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will destroy
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
- אֹבֵֽד׃ʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: is destroyed
But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
- יֹאבֵ֗דוּyoveduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will perish
My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”
- וְאָבַ֥דveavadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and will it perish
For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.
- יֹאבֵ֑דוּyoveduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they perish
As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
- יֹאבְד֥וּyoeduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: may they perish
Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
- יֹאבֵ֑דוּyoveduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will perish
Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
- יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃yoveduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will perish
May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.
- וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ׃veyoveduHC/Vqu3mptagged: and they may perish
For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
- יֹאבֵ֑דוּyoveduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will perish
They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.
- יֹאבֵדוּ֮yoeduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will perish
The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
- תֹּאבֵֽד׃tovedverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will perish
If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
- אָבַ֥דְתִּיʾavadtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I perished
The wicked wait to destroy me, but I will ponder Your testimonies.
- לְאַבְּדֵ֑נִיleabedenipreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to destroy me
I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
- אֹ֭בֵדʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: lost
Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
- אָבַ֣דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been lost
And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.
- וְֽ֭הַאֲבַדְתָּvehaavadtaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will destroy
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
- אָבְד֥וּʾaveduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have perished
Proverbs
ten uses
For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
- תְּאַבְּדֵֽם׃teabedemverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: it will destroy them
The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.
- תֹּאבֵֽד׃tovedverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is lost
When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
- תֹּאבַ֣דtovadverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is lost
- אָבָֽדָה׃ʾavadahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it perishes
When the righteous thrive, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.
- וּבַאֲבֹ֖דuvaavodconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and when perish
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.
- יֹאבֵֽד׃ פyovedverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will perish
A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.
- יֹאבֵ֑דyovedverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will perish
When the wicked come to power, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous flourish.
- וּ֝בְאָבְדָ֗םuveavedamconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and when perish they
A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
- יְאַבֶּד־yeabed-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he destroys
Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.
- לְאוֹבֵ֑דleovedpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: to is perishing
Ecclesiastes
six uses
a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard,
- לְאַבֵּ֔דleabedpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to count as lost
or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
- וְאָבַ֛דveavadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it was lost
Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
- וִֽיאַבֵּ֥דviabedHC/Vpu3mstagged: so it may destroy
In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
- אֹבֵ֣דʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: perishes
Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.
- אָבָ֑דָהʾavadahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has perished
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
- יְאַבֵּ֥דyeabedverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will destroy
Isaiah
seven uses
The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
- וַתְּאַבֵּ֥דvateabedHc/Vpw2mstagged: and you have destroyed
And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
- הָאֹֽבְדִים֙haoedimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those were lost
Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
- וְאָֽבְדָה֙veavedahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will perish
They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
- וַֽיְאַבְּדֽוּם׃vayabedumHc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they destroyed them
Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.
- וְיֹאבְד֖וּveyoeduHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may perish
The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.
- אָבָ֔דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has perished
For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.
- יֹאבֵ֑דוּyoveduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will perish
Jeremiah
twenty-six uses
See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”
- וּלְהַאֲבִ֣ידulehaavidconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy
“In that day,” declares the LORD, “the king and officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be astounded.”
- יֹאבַ֥דyovadverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will perish
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”
- וְאָבָֽדוּ׃ פveabaduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will perish
Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
- אָֽבְדָה֙ʾavedahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has perished
Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
- אָבְדָ֣הʾavedahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: has it been destroyed
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃yoveduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will perish
But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”
- וְאַבֵּ֖דveabedconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and destroying
I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.
- אִבַּ֙דְתִּי֙ʾibadtiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have destroyed
At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
- וּֽלְהַאֲבִֽיד׃ulehaavidconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy
Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
- תֹאבַ֨דtovadverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be lost
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.
- מְאַבְּדִ֧יםmeabedimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: are causing to stray
Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
- וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֣יvehaavadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy
Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.
- וְאָבַ֥דveavadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will be lost
For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish.
- וַאֲבַדְתֶּֽם׃vaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will perish
For I have not sent them, declares the LORD, and yet they are prophesying falsely in My name; therefore I will banish you, and you will perish—you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
- וַאֲבַדְתֶּ֔םvaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will perish
Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.
- וּלְהַאֲבִ֣ידulehaavidconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy
Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”
- וְאָבְדָ֖הveavedahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and will it perish
Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’
- אֹבִ֥ידָהʾovidahverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will destroy
The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.
- וְאָבַ֥דveavadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will be destroyed
Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.
- אָבָֽדוּ׃ʾavaduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will be lost
Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.
- אָבַ֖דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will perish
Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?
- אָבְדָ֤הʾavedahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: has it been lost
I will set My throne in Elam, and destroy its king and officials,” declares the LORD.
- וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֥יvehaavadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy
My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.
- אֹֽבְדוֹת֙ʾoedotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: lost
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃yoveduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will perish
For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.
- וְאִבַּ֥דveibadHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will destroy
Lamentations
two uses
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
- אִבַּ֥דʾibadverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has destroyed
So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
- אָבַ֣דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has perished
Ezekiel
fourteen uses
You are to say: ‘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: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
- וְאִבַּדְתִּ֖יveibadtiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will destroy
Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
- תֹּאבַ֣דtovadverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be lost
“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?
- וְאָבַ֖דveavadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it perishes
When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
- אָבְדָ֖הʾavedahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was lost
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
- לְאַבֵּ֣דleabedpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy
therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’
- וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֖יךָvehaavadtikhaHc/Vhq1cs/Sp2mstagged: and I will destroy you
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.
- וְהַ֣אֲבַדְתִּ֔יvehaavadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy
Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!
- אָבַ֔דְתְּʾavadtverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have perished
By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
- וָֽאַבֶּדְךָ֙vaabedkhaHc/Vpq3ms/Sp2mstagged: and I destroyed you
This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.
- וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֨יvehaavadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy
I will slaughter all her cattle beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, and no cattle hooves will disturb them.
- וְהַֽאֲבַדְתִּי֙vehaavadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
- הָאֹבֶ֖דֶתhaovedetthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: the lost
I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
- הָאֹבֶ֤דֶתhaovedetthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: the lost
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
- וְאָבְדָ֥הveavedahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it has been lost
Joel
one use
Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
- אָבַ֖דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has perished
Amos
three uses
I will cut off the ruler of Ashdod and the one who wields the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,” says the Lord GOD.
- וְאָֽבְדוּ֙veaveduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will perish
Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
- וְאָבַ֤דveavadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will be lost
I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.
- וְאָבְד֞וּveaveduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will perish
Obadiah
two uses
In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
- וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֤יvehaavadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy
But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
- אָבְדָ֑םʾavedamverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: perish they
Jonah
four uses
The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
- נֹאבֵֽד׃novedverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will perish
So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”
- נֹאבְדָ֗הnovdahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us perish
Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
- נֹאבֵֽד׃novedverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will perish
But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
- אָבָֽד׃ʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it perished
Micah
three uses
Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?
- אָבָ֔דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has he perished
“In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.
- וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֖יvehaavadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
- אָבַ֤דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has perished
Zephaniah
two uses
Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”
- וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֖יךְvehaavadtikhHc/Vhq1cs/Sp2fstagged: and I will destroy you
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
- וִֽיאַבֵּ֖דviabedHC/Vpu3mstagged: so he may destroy
Zechariah
one use
Ashkelon will see and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, as will Ekron, for her hope will wither. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.
- וְאָ֤בַדveavadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will perish
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Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in the first 120 verses where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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