Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H6: אָבַד (ʼâbad) Definition

Strong's number
H6
Lemma
אָבַד
Transliteration
ʼâbad
Pronunciation
aw-bad'
Strong's definition
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy) 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. a primitive root;

173 instances of the word אָבַד ʼâbad (H6)


  • Jeremiah 18:18 - Then said and let us devise against Jeremiah devices shall not perish for the law from the priest nor counsel from the wise nor the word from the prophet and let us smite him with the tongue and let us not give heed nor the word

  • Jeremiah 23:1 - Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 25:10 - Moreover I will take and the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride and the voice of the millstones and the light of the candle

  • Jeremiah 25:35 - to flee shall have no way And the shepherds to escape nor the principal of the flock

  • Jeremiah 27:10 - a lie For they prophesy unto you to remove you far from your land and that I should drive you out and ye should perish

  • Jeremiah 27:15 - For I have not sent them saith the LORD that prophesy in my name a lie that I might drive you out and that ye might perish ye and the prophets that prophesy

  • Jeremiah 31:28 - And it shall come to pass that like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict And it shall come to pass that like as I have watched over them to build and to plant saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 40:15 - Then Johanan the son of Kareah saying to Gedaliah secretly in Mizpah saying I pray thee and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and no man shall know I pray thee and I will slay unto thee should be scattered thee that all the Jews which are gathered perish and the remnant in Judah

  • Jeremiah 46:8 - Egypt like a flood I will go up like the rivers are moved and his waters and he saith I will go up and will cover the earth I will destroy the city and the inhabitants

  • Jeremiah 48:8 - shall come And the spoiler and no city and no city shall escape also shall perish the valley shall be destroyed and the plain hath spoken as the LORD

  • Jeremiah 48:36 - Therefore mine heart for Moab like pipes shall sound Therefore mine heart of Kirheres like pipes shall sound because the riches that he hath gotten are perished

  • Jeremiah 48:46 - Woe be unto thee O Moab perisheth the people of Chemosh are taken for thy sons captives and thy daughters captives

  • Jeremiah 49:7 - Concerning Edom thus saith the LORD of hosts Is wisdom no more in Teman perished is counsel from the prudent vanished Is wisdom

  • Jeremiah 49:38 - And I will set my throne in Elam and will destroy from thence the king and the princes saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 50:6 - sheep hath been lost My people their shepherds have caused them to go astray on the mountains on the mountains to hill they have gone they have forgotten their restingplace

  • Jeremiah 51:18 - They are vanity the work of errors in the time of their visitation they shall perish

  • Jeremiah 51:55 - hath spoiled Because the LORD Babylon and destroyed of their voice out of her the great do roar when her waves waters like great is uttered a noise of their voice

  • Job 3:3 - perish Let the day wherein I was born and the night in which it was said There is a man child

  • Job 4:7 - Remember being innocent I pray thee who ever perished or where were the righteous cut off

  • Job 4:9 - By the blast of God they perish and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed