אָבַד avad

Hebrew word for “to perish” · Strong’s H6 · used 184 times in 174 verses

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Meaning

1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed;

How it is translated

Glosses given for avad in context, with how often each is used:

• will perish 32
• will destroy 23
• destroy 19
• will be lost 9
• has perished 8
• have perished 7
• lost 7
• perish 6
• destroyed 6
• have destroyed 5
• may perish 5
• certainly 4

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 28 (4), Job 4 (4), Psalms 9 (4), Deuteronomy 7 (3), Esther 4 (3), Esther 9 (3), Psalms 119 (3), Jeremiah 48 (3), Numbers 21 (2), Deuteronomy 8 (2)

Forms

• אבד 28
• יאבדו 13
• ואבד 12
• תאבד 11
• והאבדתי 8
• אבדה 7
• ואבדתם 7
• יאבד 7
• ויאבדו 6
• תאבדון 5

Words used with it

Words that share verses with avad more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שָׁמַד shamad “to destroy” 14
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 17
• רָשָׁע rasah “wicked” 12
• תִּקְוָה tiqvah “hope” 8
• יְהוּדִי yehudi “Jew” 9
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 13
• כֵּן ken “so” 13
• הֵמָּה hemmah “they(masc.)” 11
• נֵצַח netsach “perpetuity” 6
• אֲדָמָה adamah “land” 8
• נְאֻם neum “utterance” 9
• נָתַשׁ natash “to uproot” 5

Key verses

The verses using avad that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 4:26 — I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye…
• Judges 5:31 — So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
• Esther 4:16 — Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens…
• Psalms 2:12 — Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
• Isaiah 27:13 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the…
• Isaiah 57:1 — The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to…
• Jeremiah 18:18 — Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from…
• Jeremiah 49:7 — Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
• Ezekiel 22:27 — Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
• Ezekiel 34:16 — I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:…
• Ezekiel 37:11 — Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for…
• Micah 7:2 — The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.