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ʾāvad אָבַד ‘to perish’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: a primitive root

ʾāvad v
1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed
 1a) (Qal)
  1a1) perish, die, be exterminated
  1a2) perish, vanish (fig.)
  1a3) be lost, strayed
 1b) (Piel)
  1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate
  1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.)
  1b3) cause to stray, lose
 1c) (Hiphil)
  1c1) to destroy, put to death
1c1a) of divine judgment
  1c2) object name of kings (fig.)

Mentioned in Exodus 10:7 Codex Leviticus 23:30, 26:38 Numbers 16:33, 17:27, 21:29, 21:30, 24:19, 33:52 Deuteronomy 26:5, 4:26, 7:10, 7:20, 7:24, 8:19, 8:20, 9:3, 11:4, 11:17, 12:2, 12:3, 22:3, 28:20, 28:22, 28:51, 28:63, 30:18, 32:28 Joshua 7:7, 23:13, 23:16 Judges 5:31 1 Samuel 9:3, 9:20 2 Samuel 1:27 2 Kings 21:3, 9:8, 10:19, 11:1, 13:7, 19:18, 24:2 Isaiah 26:14, 27:13, 29:14, 37:19, 41:11, 57:1, 60:12 Jeremiah 6:21, 1:10, 4:9, 7:28, 9:11, 10:15, 12:17, 15:7, 18:7, 18:18, 23:1, 25:10, 25:35, 27:10, 27:15, 31:28, 40:15, 46:8, 48:8, 48:36, 48:46, 49:7, 49:38, 50:6, 51:18, 51:55 Ezekiel 6:3, 7:26, 12:22, 19:5, 22:27, 25:7, 25:16, 26:17, 28:16, 30:13, 32:13, 34:4, 34:16, 37:11 Joel 1:11 Amos 1:8, 2:14, 3:15 Obadiah 1:8, 1:12 Jonah 1:6, 1:14, 3:9, 4:10 Micah 4:9, 5:9, 7:2 Zephaniah 2:5, 2:13 Zechariah 9:5 Psalms 1:6, 2:12, 5:7, 9:4, 9:6, 9:7, 9:19, 10:16, 21:11, 31:13, 37:20, 41:6, 49:11, 68:3, 73:27, 80:17, 83:18, 92:10, 102:27, 112:10, 119:92, 119:95, 119:176, 142:5, 143:12, 146:4 Proverbs 29:3, 1:32, 10:28, 11:7, 11:10, 19:9, 21:28, 28:28, 31:6 Job 3:3, 4:7, 4:9, 4:11, 4:20, 6:18, 8:13, 11:20, 12:23, 14:19, 18:17, 20:7, 29:13, 30:2, 31:19 Lamentations 2:9, 3:18 Ecclesiastes 3:6, 5:13, 7:7, 7:15, 9:6, 9:18 Esther 4:14, 3:9, 3:13, 4:7, 4:16, 7:4, 8:5, 8:11, 9:6, 9:12, 9:24

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