Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H7
אֲבַד
abadab-ad'
to destroy
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼăbad
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7
{properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)}
The King James renders it: destroy, perish.
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 destroy". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Six of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Jeremiah 10:11Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
Jeremiah 10:11יֵאבַ֧דוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to destroy2
- and it was destroyed1
- and to destroy1
- may they perish1
- they will destroy1
- you destroy1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲבַדֹּה | abaddoh | destruction | Uses1 |
| אֲבַטִּיחַ | abattiach | melon | Uses1 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- וְהוּבַ֣ד1
- וּלְהוֹבָדָ֖ה1
- יֵאבַ֧דוּ1
- יְהֹֽבְדוּן֙1
- לְה֣וֹבָדָ֔ה1
- לְהוֹבָדָ֖ה1
- תְּהוֹבֵ֔ד1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)2AR/Vhcc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1AC/R/Vhcc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AC/VHp3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1AVhi3fs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVhi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVqi3mp
Jeremiah
one use
Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
- יֵאבַ֧דוּyevaduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: may they perish
Daniel
six uses
This response made the king so furious with anger that he gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
- לְה֣וֹבָדָ֔הlehoadahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy
urging them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
- יְהֹֽבְדוּן֙yehoedunverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will destroy
Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not execute the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.”
- לְהוֹבָדָ֖הlehoadahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy
- תְּהוֹבֵ֔דtehovedverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: you destroy
Then I kept watching because of the arrogant words the horn was speaking. As I continued to watch, the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire.
- וְהוּבַ֣דvehuvadconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and it was destroyed
But the court will convene, and his dominion will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.
- וּלְהוֹבָדָ֖הulehoadahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.