Strong’s H7 · Aramaic
אֲבַד
ʼăbad · ab-ad'
Origin (Aramaic) corresponding to אָבַד (H6)
Meaning {properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)}
In the King James Version destroy, perish.
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- Jeremiah 10:11Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
- Daniel 2:12For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:18That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:24Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 7:11I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
- Daniel 7:26But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.