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)


  • Psalms 80:16 - It is burned with fire it is cut down at the rebuke of thy countenance they perish

  • Psalms 83:17 - Let them be confounded and troubled for ever yea let them be put to shame and perish

  • Psalms 92:9 - For lo thine enemies O LORD For lo thine enemies shall perish shall be scattered all the workers of iniquity

  • Psalms 102:26 - They shall perish but thou shalt endure like a garment yea all of them shall wax old as a vesture shalt thou change shalt thou change

  • Psalms 112:10 - The wicked shall see it and be grieved with his teeth he shall gnash and melt away the desire The wicked shall perish

  • Psalms 119:92 - Unless thy law had been my delights I should then have perished in mine affliction

  • Psalms 119:95 - have waited The wicked for me to destroy thy testimonies me but I will consider

  • Psalms 142:4 - I looked on my right hand and beheld but there was no man that would know failed me refuge me no man cared for my soul

  • Psalms 143:12 - And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies and destroy all them that afflict my soul for I am thy servant

  • Psalms 146:4 - goeth forth His breath he returneth to his earth in that very day perish his thoughts

  • Zechariah 9:5 - shall see Ashkelon it and fear Gaza sorrowful also shall see it and be very and Ekron for her expectation shall perish and the king Gaza Ashkelon shall not be inhabited

  • Zephaniah 2:5 - Woe thee that there shall be no inhabitant coast of the sea the nation of the Cherethites the word of the LORD is against you O Canaan the land of the Philistines I will even destroy thee that there shall be no inhabitant

  • Zephaniah 2:13 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation and dry like a wilderness