אָבַד

Strong’s Definition

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

Etymology & Derivation

a primitive root;

KJV Usage

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.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed
• 2.(qal)
• 3.(piel)
• 4.(hiphil)

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: ʼâbad; Pronunciation: aw-bad'