אָבַד
avad · perish, be lost
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6 · appears 184 times in the Bible
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avad (אָבַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “perish, be lost”.
Perish, be ruined, be lost; wander off. In the causative, destroy.
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
- To be lost or out of place, like an animal that strays.
- To die, be ruined.
- To make someone or something disappear completely.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
To be lost, to wander off; to perish; in the causative form, to make perish, destroy. BDB: properly to wander away, to lose oneself; by implication, to perish (causatively, to destroy).
- Lost animals 1 Samuel 9:3Jeremiah 50:6
- “A wandering Aramean was my father” Deuteronomy 26:5
- To perish: “the way of the wicked will perish” Psalms 1:6
- “If I perish, I perish” Esther 4:16
- To make perish Ezekiel 25:16
How we translate it
Forms of “perish”: “perish” 67, “will perish” 32, “perished” 12, “has perished” 11, “perishes” 7… In the causative, “destroy” 21 or “make perish” (Ezekiel 25:16). With animals, “lost” 9; in Deuteronomy 26:5, “wandering”.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- perish ×67
- will perish ×32
- destroy ×21
- perished ×12
- has perished ×11
- lost ×9
- perishes ×7
- destroyed ×5
- perishing ×5
- You shall completely wipe out ×2
- others ×13
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus×1
- Leviticus×2
- Numbers×8
- Deuteronomy×24
- Joshua×3
- Judges×1
- 1 Samuel×2
- 2 Samuel×1
- 2 Kings×7
- Esther×13
- Job×15
- Psalms×26
- Proverbs×10
- Ecclesiastes×6
- Isaiah×7
- Jeremiah×26
- Lamentations×2
- Ezekiel×14
- Joel×1
- Amos×3
- Obadiah×2
- Jonah×4
- Micah×3
- Zephaniah×2
- Zechariah×1
- Exodus 10:7
Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve YHWH their Elohim. Do you not yet know that Egypt is ruined?”
- Leviticus 23:30
And any person who does any work on this very day, I will destroy that person from among their people.
- Leviticus 26:38
And you will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.
- Numbers 16:33
So they and all that was theirs went down alive to Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
- Numbers 17:12
And the sons of Israel said to Moses, saying, “Look, we expire, we perish, all of us perish!
- Numbers 21:29
Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to the king of the Amorites, Sihon.
- Numbers 21:30
But we shot them down; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon, and we laid waste as far as Nophah, which reaches as far as Medeba.”
- Numbers 24:19
And one from Jacob shall rule and destroy the survivor from the city.”
- Numbers 33:52
you shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and do away with all their carved stones, and all their molten images you shall do away with, and all their high places you shall destroy.
- Deuteronomy 4:26
I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you today that you will surely perish quickly from the land to which you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not prolong your days on it, but you will surely be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 7:10
and who repays those who hate him to their face, making them perish; he will not delay with the one who hates him; to his face he will repay him.
- Deuteronomy 7:20
Moreover YHWH your Elohim will send the hornet among them until those who are left and those who hide from you perish.
- Deuteronomy 7:24
He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will make their name perish from under the heavens; no man will stand before you until you have destroyed them.
- Deuteronomy 8:19
But it will be, if you do forget YHWH your Elohim and go after other gods and serve them and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
- Deuteronomy 8:20
Like the nations that YHWH makes perish before you, so you will perish, because you did not listen to the voice of YHWH your Elohim.
- Deuteronomy 9:3
Know today that YHWH your Elohim, he is the one who crosses over before you as a consuming fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; and you will dispossess them and make them perish quickly, as YHWH has spoken to you.
- Deuteronomy 11:4
and what he did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and to its chariots, how he made the waters of the Sea of Reeds flow over their faces when they pursued you, and YHWH made them perish to this day;
- Deuteronomy 11:17
and the anger of YHWH be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, and the ground does not yield its produce, and you perish quickly from the good land that YHWH is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall completely wipe out all the places where the nations that you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every leafy tree.
- Deuteronomy 12:3
You shall tear down their altars, smash their standing stones, burn their Asherahs with fire, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their name from that place.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall answer and say before YHWH your Elohim, “A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner, with few men, and there he became a great, mighty, and numerous nation.
- Deuteronomy 28:20
YHWH will send on you the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke in all that you undertake with your hand that you do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.
- Deuteronomy 28:22
YHWH will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew; and they will pursue you until you perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:51
And it will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed; it will not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the offspring of your herds or the young of your flock, until it has made you perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:63
And it shall be that as YHWH rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so YHWH will rejoice over you to make you perish and to destroy you; and you will be torn from off the land that you are entering there to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 30:18
I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you will not prolong your days on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter there to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 32:28
For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
- Joshua 7:7
And Joshua said, “Alas, Adonai YHWH! Why did you bring this people all the way across the Jordan to give us into the hand of the Amorite, to make us perish? If only we had been content to stay beyond the Jordan!
- Joshua 23:13
know for certain that YHWH your Elohim will not continue to dispossess these nations before you; and they shall be for you a snare and a trap, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land that YHWH your Elohim has given you.
- Joshua 23:16
When you transgress the covenant of YHWH your Elohim that he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of YHWH will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land that he has given you.”
- Judges 5:31
So may all your enemies perish, YHWH! But may those who love him be like the going out of the sun in its strength.” And the land was calm forty years.
- 1 Samuel 9:3
Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost, and Kish said to Saul his son, “Take one of the young men with you, please, and get up, go, look for the donkeys.”
- 1 Samuel 9:20
As for the donkeys that were lost to you three days ago do not set your heart on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not for you and for all the house of your father?”
- 2 Samuel 1:27
How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”
- 2 Kings 9:8
All the house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against the wall, both the one kept and the one left in Israel.
- 2 Kings 10:19
Now call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests; let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal; anyone who is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.
- 2 Kings 11:1
Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, and she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
- 2 Kings 13:7
For he had not left Jehoahaz any people except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had made them perish and made them like the dust at threshing.
- 2 Kings 19:18
and have put their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of human hands, wood and stone; so they made them perish.
And 144 more times.