Strong's Hebrew · H7

אֲבַד

ʼăbad · ab-ad'

destroy, perish.

Definition

{properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)}

Derivation

(Aramaic) corresponding to H6 (אָבַד)

Appears 7 times in Scripture

Daniel 2:12

This response made the king so angry and furious that he gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 7:11

Then I kept watching because of the arrogant words the horn was speaking. As I continued to watch, the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire.

Daniel 2:18

urging them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 7:26

But the court will convene, and his dominion will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.

Daniel 2:24

Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not execute the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.”

Jeremiah 10:11

Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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