Strong's H6 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: אָבַד (ʼâbad)

Pronunciation: aw-bad'

Morphology: v

Derivation: a primitive root;

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

KJV Renderings: 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.

Senses

1. perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed
1. (Qal)
2. perish, die, be exterminated
3. perish, vanish (fig.)
4. be lost, strayed
5. (Piel)
6. to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate
7. to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.)
8. cause to stray, lose
9. (Hiphil)
10. to destroy, put to death
1. of divine judgment
11. object name of kings (fig.)

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.