אֲבַד
avad · perish
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H7 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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avad (אֲבַד) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “perish”.
(Aramaic) To perish, to vanish.
How to say it
a·vad
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Perish, pass away.
- To make perish.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- destroy ×5
- destroyed ×1
- will perish ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Jeremiah 10:11
Thus you shall say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
- Daniel 2:12
Because of this the king became angry and was furious very much, and he said to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:18
and told them to ask for compassion from before the Elah of the heavens concerning this mystery, so that they would not destroy Daniel and his companions with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:24
Because of this Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said this to him: “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and the interpretation to the king I will declare.”
- Daniel 7:11
I was looking then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking; I was looking until the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given to the burning of fire.
- Daniel 7:26
But the court will sit, and his dominion they will take away, to annihilate and to destroy it to the end.
And 1 more times.