עָזַב (a.zav) means “to leave: forsake” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: aw-zab' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
עָזַב · a.zav · to leave: forsake
1) to leave, loose, forsake 1a) (Qal) to leave 1a1) to depart from, leave behind, leave, let alone 1a2) to leave, abandon, forsake, neglect, apostatise 1a3) to let loose, set free, let go, free 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be left to 1b2) to be forsaken 1c) (Pual) to be deserted
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עָזַב · a.zav · to restore
1) to restore, repair 1a) (Qal) to repair
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עָזַב · a.zav · to leave: release
1) to leave, loose, forsake 1a) (Qal) to leave 1a1) to depart from, leave behind, leave, let alone 1a2) to leave, abandon, forsake, neglect, apostatise 1a3) to let loose, set free, let go, free 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be left to 1b2) to be forsaken 1c) (Pual) to be deserted
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עָזַב · a.zav · Forsaken
This name means to restore, repair Another name of ye.ru.sha.laim (יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵם "Jerusalem" H3389)
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עָזַב · a.zav · to leave: neglect
1) to leave, loose, forsake 1a) (Qal) to leave 1a1) to depart from, leave behind, leave, let alone 1a2) to leave, abandon, forsake, neglect, apostatise 1a3) to let loose, set free, let go, free 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be left to 1b2) to be forsaken 1c) (Pual) to be deserted
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a primitive root; to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
KJV glosses: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, [idiom] surely.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| forsaken | 9 |
| forsake | 7 |
| abandon | 6 |
| forsake me | 6 |
| have forsaken | 6 |
| abandoned | 5 |
| leave | 5 |
| leave you | 5 |
| they abandoned | 5 |
| they have forsaken | 5 |
| forsake them | 4 |
| left | 4 |
| they have forsaken me | 4 |
| and free | 3 |
| forsake you | 3 |
| behind | 2 |
| but rehoboam rejected | 2 |
| deserted | 2 |
| has forsaken | 2 |
| have forsaken me | 2 |
| he left | 2 |
| leave us | 2 |
| neglect | 2 |
| the philistines abandoned | 2 |
| they have abandoned | 2 |
| those who forsake | 2 |
| thus they forsook | 2 |
| we have forsaken | 2 |
| will you leave | 2 |
| you forsake him | 2 |
| you have forsaken | 2 |
| abandon her | 1 |
| abandoned me | 1 |
| abandoning | 1 |
| and abandon | 1 |
| and abandoned | 1 |
| and change | 1 |
| and forsake | 1 |
| and forsaken | 1 |
| and i will abandon them | 1 |
| and leave | 1 |
| and leave them | 1 |
| and leave you | 1 |
| and renounces them | 1 |
| and those who forsake | 1 |
| are forsaken | 1 |
| be forsaken | 1 |
| be left | 1 |
| been neglected | 1 |
| but he who ignores | 1 |
| but leaving | 1 |
| by forsaking | 1 |
| can they restore the wall | 1 |
| deserts | 1 |
| did you forsake them | 1 |
| entrusts himself | 1 |
| even if he forsakes | 1 |
| ever leave | 1 |
| fails | 1 |
| for him who leaves | 1 |
| for they forsook | 1 |
| for you have forsaken | 1 |
| for you to forsake | 1 |
| forsake wisdom | 1 |
| forsaken him | 1 |
| forsaken me | 1 |
| forsaken us | 1 |
| forsaking me | 1 |
| forsook | 1 |
| free | 1 |
| from those who leave | 1 |
| give up | 1 |
| has failed within me | 1 |
| has forsaken him | 1 |
| has forsaken me | 1 |
| have you forsaken me | 1 |
| he abandoned | 1 |
| he had left | 1 |
| he has forsaken | 1 |
| he has left | 1 |
| he rejected | 1 |
| he will forsake | 1 |
| his riches will desert him | 1 |
| how you left | 1 |
| i forsook you | 1 |
| i have forsaken | 1 |
| i will express | 1 |
| i would abandon | 1 |
| if he were to leave | 1 |
| in forsaking him | 1 |
| is abandoned | 1 |
| jehoram had forsaken | 1 |
| judah had forsaken | 1 |
| leave them | 1 |
| leaving | 1 |
| left behind | 1 |
| left him | 1 |
| let us stop | 1 |
| nor forsake you | 1 |
| or free | 1 |
| rejected | 1 |
| she leaves | 1 |
| so david left | 1 |
| so elisha left | 1 |
| so potiphar left | 1 |
| so you abandoned them | 1 |
| that she left | 1 |
| they abandoned him | 1 |
| they abandoned me | 1 |
| they fortified | 1 |
| they have abandoned me | 1 |
| they left | 1 |
| they will forsake me | 1 |
| this happened because they had forsaken | 1 |
| to forsake | 1 |
| to leave you | 1 |
| to let it go | 1 |
| to neglect | 1 |
| we have abandoned | 1 |
| were left | 1 |
| who abandon you | 1 |
| who abandons | 1 |
| who deserts | 1 |
| who forsake | 1 |
| who forsake him | 1 |
| who reject | 1 |
| why have you forsaken us | 1 |
| will be abandoned | 1 |
| will be laid waste | 1 |
| will be left | 1 |
| will leave | 1 |
| withdrawn | 1 |
| withheld | 1 |
| you forsake | 1 |
| you left behind | 1 |
| you must help him | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| forsake | 14 |
| left | 9 |
| because they have forsaken | 7 |
| forsaken | 7 |
| leave | 6 |
| and left | 5 |
| hath forsaken | 5 |
| and forsook | 4 |
| have forsaken | 4 |
| i will not leave | 4 |
| and they left | 3 |
| thee nor forsake | 3 |
| and forsake | 2 |
| and forsaketh | 2 |
| and he left | 2 |
| and they forsook | 2 |
| because they forsook | 2 |
| because they had forsaken | 2 |
| because we have forsaken | 2 |
| but he forsook | 2 |
| faileth | 2 |
| that he left | 2 |
| they have forsaken | 2 |
| they that forsake | 2 |
| thou shalt leave | 2 |
| against all them that forsake | 1 |
| against thee both because we have forsaken | 1 |
| all that forsake | 1 |
| also shall be left | 1 |
| and forsookest | 1 |
| and have forsaken | 1 |
| and he forsook | 1 |
| and i will forsake | 1 |
| and leave | 1 |
| and shall leave | 1 |
| and there they left | 1 |
| and they fortified | 1 |
| and they that forsake | 1 |
| and we have not forsaken | 1 |
| and we will not forsake | 1 |
| and when they had left | 1 |
| and where will ye leave | 1 |
| and will not forsake | 1 |
| be as a forsaken | 1 |
| be forsaken | 1 |
| because he had forsaken | 1 |
| because that they have forsaken | 1 |
| because they have left off | 1 |
| because ye have forsaken | 1 |
| but he forsaketh | 1 |
| but he that refuseth | 1 |
| but i forsook | 1 |
| but ye have forsaken | 1 |
| committeth | 1 |
| for her and leave | 1 |
| for i will not leave | 1 |
| for thou wilt not leave | 1 |
| forsook | 1 |
| forsookest | 1 |
| from him for they left | 1 |
| hast not forsaken | 1 |
| hath not forsaken | 1 |
| have i forsaken | 1 |
| he hath also forsaken | 1 |
| he hath forsaken | 1 |
| he should leave | 1 |
| help | 1 |
| him he will forsake | 1 |
| him thou shalt surely | 1 |
| himself he forsook | 1 |
| i have forsaken | 1 |
| i pray you let us leave off | 1 |
| i will leave | 1 |
| i will leave off | 1 |
| if ye forsake | 1 |
| in that ye have forsaken | 1 |
| it and forsake | 1 |
| let him not leave | 1 |
| me not neither forsake | 1 |
| me not to leave | 1 |
| neither did they forsake | 1 |
| neither left | 1 |
| neither will he forsake | 1 |
| nor any left | 1 |
| not forsaken | 1 |
| not left | 1 |
| o forsake | 1 |
| of thee but if thou forsake | 1 |
| of you but if ye forsake | 1 |
| or left | 1 |
| or wilt thou leave | 1 |
| shall be forsaken | 1 |
| shall be left | 1 |
| shall leave | 1 |
| so he left | 1 |
| that are forsaken | 1 |
| that forsake | 1 |
| that he had left | 1 |
| that i might leave | 1 |
| that it shall leave | 1 |
| that leaveth | 1 |
| that she left | 1 |
| that thou hast forsaken | 1 |
| that we should forsake | 1 |
| thee neither forsake | 1 |
| thee therefore leftest | 1 |
| them and have forsaken | 1 |
| them and will forsake | 1 |
| them like as ye have forsaken | 1 |
| them nor forsake | 1 |
| then they forsook | 1 |
| they forsook | 1 |
| they left | 1 |
| they shall be left | 1 |
| this for we have forsaken | 1 |
| this unto thyself in that thou hast forsaken | 1 |
| thou hast been forsaken | 1 |
| thou hast left | 1 |
| thou shalt not forsake | 1 |
| to help | 1 |
| to thyself that thou forsake | 1 |
| unto him that forsaketh | 1 |
| unto them and not forsake | 1 |
| whereby thou hast forsaken | 1 |
| wherewith they have forsaken | 1 |
| which forsaketh | 1 |
| which leaveth | 1 |
| which they left | 1 |
| who hath not left destitute | 1 |
| who hath not left off | 1 |
| who have forsaken | 1 |
| who leave | 1 |
| whom ye have left | 1 |
| why hast thou forsaken | 1 |
| will not forsake | 1 |
| will not leave | 1 |
| will they fortify | 1 |
| with me and he left | 1 |
| with them that forsake | 1 |
| ye have forsaken | 1 |
| ye have left | 1 |
| ye have not left | 1 |
| yet ye have forsaken | 1 |
Page 4 of 5. 206 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
Read word by wordWhat will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
Read word by wordMy hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
Read word by wordThe cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
Read word by wordIn that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.
Read word by wordThey will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.
Read word by wordFor the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
Read word by wordFor the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
Read word by wordThe poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Read word by wordI will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
Read word by wordBut Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
Read word by wordFor the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
Read word by word“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
Read word by wordLet the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
Read word by wordFor day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
Read word by wordWhereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.
Read word by wordNo longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.
Read word by wordAnd they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
Read word by wordBut you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
Read word by wordI will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, and they have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Read word by word“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Read word by wordHave you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
Read word by wordYour own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
Read word by wordEvery city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
Read word by word“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
Read word by wordAnd when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
Read word by wordIf only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.1
And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.12
For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.18
I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.
Read word by wordEven the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Read word by wordThen you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
Read word by wordLike a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
Read word by wordO LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
Read word by wordDoes the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
Read word by wordbecause they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
Read word by wordThen people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
Read word by wordHe has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Read word by wordAbandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
Read word by wordAbandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
Read word by wordHow is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
Read word by word“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
Read word by wordWhy have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
Read word by word“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
Read word by wordHe replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
Read word by wordBut they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.
Read word by wordShe did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.
Read word by wordThey will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity
Read word by wordTell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’
Read word by wordtherefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
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