אֲבֵדָה

aveda · lost thing

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H9 · appears 4 times in the Bible

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What it means

aveda (אֲבֵדָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lost thing”.

Something lost.

How to say it

a·ve·da

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

  1. What someone mislaid.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • lost thing ×3
  • something lost ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Exodus 22:9

    In every case of transgression, whether for an ox, for a donkey, for a lamb, for a garment, or for any lost thing of which someone says, ‘This is it,’ the case of the two of them shall come before Elohim; the one whom Elohim declares guilty shall repay double to his neighbor.

  • Leviticus 6:3

    or has found something lost and lied about it and sworn falsely about any one of all the things that a man may do so as to sin by them,

  • Leviticus 6:4

    when he has sinned and is guilty, he shall restore what he robbed or what he gained by exploitation or the deposit that was deposited with him or the lost thing that he found,

  • Deuteronomy 22:3

    And so you shall do with his donkey, and so you shall do with his garment, and so you shall do with any lost thing of your brother that is lost by him and you find; you may not ignore it.