a.vad H6

אָבַד (a.vad) means “to perish” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

אָבַד Hebrew · H6 184 tagged occurrences in 174 verses

Pronunciation guide: aw-bad' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0006

אָבַד · a.vad · to perish

1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) perish, die, be exterminated 1a2) perish, vanish (fig.) 1a3) be lost, strayed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate 1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.) 1b3) cause to stray, lose 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to destroy, put to death 1c1a) of divine judgment 1c2) object name of kings (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: a.vad (אֲבַד "to destroy" H0007)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

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

KJV glosses: 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.

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How translators render H6

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
will perish	16
perish	12
has perished	6
and destroy	5
destroy	5
to destroy	4
and destroyed	3
have perished	3
i will destroy	3
lost	3
perishes	3
they perish	3
and annihilate	2
and destroyed them	2
and perish	2
and you will perish	2
i perish	2
perished	2
the lost	2
they will perish	2
to annihilate	2
to destroy them	2
you perish	2
you will perish	2
you will surely perish	2
and annihilate them	1
and annihilation	1
and be forgotten	1
and destroy it	1
and destroy them	1
and destroying	1
and destroys them	1
and exterminate you	1
and i banished you	1
and i will destroy	1
and perished	1
and they vanished	1
and those who were perishing	1
and will perish	1
and wipe out	1
and wreck	1
and you perish	1
and you will soon perish	1
and you will wipe out	1
be lost	1
but when they perish	1
corrupts	1
dashed	1
destroy completely	1
destroyed	1
destroyed them completely	1
destroys	1
devoid	1
fails	1
had destroyed	1
had destroyed them	1
had left them	1
has destroyed	1
has ever perished	1
has vanished	1
he has destroyed	1
he will perish	1
he will silence	1
i will destroy you	1
i will slaughter	1
i would have perished	1
in order to destroy	1
is destroyed	1
let us perish	1
lies in ruins	1
like a broken	1
like a lost	1
may they perish	1
moreover i will banish	1
of their destruction	1
one perish	1
perishing	1
so you destroy	1
squanders	1
the dying man	1
there is no	1
there will cease to be	1
they have caused you to perish	1
to be destroyed	1
to count as lost	1
to one who is perishing	1
vanished	1
vanishes	1
wandered off	1
was a wandering	1
was lost	1
we are lost	1
we may not perish	1
who destroy	1
will also be ruined	1
will also perish	1
will destroy them	1
will elude them	1
will evade	1
will fail	1
will lose	1
will vanish	1
with destruction	1
would perish	1
you are destroyed	1
you destroy	1
you have destroyed	1
you have perished	1
you have wiped out	1
you lost	1
you will wipe	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
shall perish	19
perish	13
and destroy	7
to destroy	7
is perished	6
perished	5
perisheth	5
and destroyed	4
and perish	3
and to destroy	3
destroyeth	3
they perish	3
they shall perish	3
and to cause to perish	2
are perished	2
had destroyed	2
i will destroy	2
that which was lost	2
that ye shall surely	2
therefore they have destroyed	2
against you and ye shall perish	1
also shall perish	1
and destroyeth	1
and i will cause thee to perish	1
and i will destroy	1
and if i perish	1
and perished	1
and shall destroy	1
and that ye might perish	1
and they shall not escape	1
and thou destroyest	1
and thou shalt destroy	1
and to perish	1
and until thou perish	1
and will destroy	1
and ye perish	1
and ye shall perish	1
and ye should perish	1
any perish	1
destroy	1
even destroy	1
failed	1
faileth	1
for me to destroy	1
from thee shall perish	1
hath been lost	1
hath destroyed	1
he hath destroyed	1
he shall perish	1
i am like a broken	1
i perish	1
i should then have perished	1
i will also destroy	1
i will even destroy	1
is destroyed	1
is lost	1
like a lost	1
moreover i will take	1
of children i will destroy	1
of him that was ready to perish	1
of thee and i will destroy	1
of their destruction	1
over you to destroy	1
ready to perish	1
shall be destroyed	1
shall destroy	1
shall not perish	1
shalt thou destroy	1
so shall ye perish	1
spendeth	1
that destroy	1
that perisheth	1
that they may be destroyed	1
that we perish	1
that were lost	1
thee be destroyed	1
thee shall perish	1
thee until thou perish	1
them and to destroy	1
themselves but when they perish	1
thou art undone	1
thou hast destroyed	1
thou shalt destroy	1
to flee	1
to lose	1
to perish	1
to the intent that he might destroy	1
to thee how art thou destroyed	1
until he have destroyed	1
until ye perish	1
unto him that is ready to perish	1
upon them and they perished	1
upon us that we perish	1
upon you and i will destroy	1
utterly	1
void	1
was lost	1
was perished	1
we all perish	1
we beseech thee let us not perish	1
we perish	1
were lost	1
which he hath lost	1
which were ready to perish	1
will i destroy	1
with thee shall perish	1
ye perish	1
ye shall utterly	1
you and destroy	1

Verses containing H6

Page 1 of 4. 174 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

Exodus 10:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”
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Leviticus 23:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day.
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Leviticus 26:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
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Numbers 16:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
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Numbers 17:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!
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Source alternate reference: 17.27
Numbers 21:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
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Numbers 21:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
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Numbers 24:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A ruler will come from Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.”
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Numbers 33:52 · BSB · 2 occurrences
you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
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Deuteronomy 4:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
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Deuteronomy 7:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.
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Deuteronomy 7:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.
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Deuteronomy 7:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
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Deuteronomy 8:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
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Deuteronomy 8:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
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Deuteronomy 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.
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Deuteronomy 11:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;
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Deuteronomy 11:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
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Deuteronomy 12:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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Deuteronomy 12:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
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Deuteronomy 22:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
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Deuteronomy 26:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
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Deuteronomy 28:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.
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Deuteronomy 28:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
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Deuteronomy 28:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
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Deuteronomy 28:63 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
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Deuteronomy 30:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
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Deuteronomy 32:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
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Joshua 7:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
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Joshua 23:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
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Joshua 23:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”
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Judges 5:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
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1 Samuel 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One day the donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, and Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants and go look for the donkeys.”
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1 Samuel 9:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them, for they have been found. And upon whom is all the desire of Israel, if not upon you and all your father’s house?”
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2 Samuel 1:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”
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2 Kings 9:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.
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2 Kings 10:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.
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2 Kings 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.
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2 Kings 13:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
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2 Kings 19:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
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2 Kings 21:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
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2 Kings 24:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.
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Esther 3:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”
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Esther 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
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Esther 4:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.
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Esther 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
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Esther 4:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
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Esther 7:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
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Esther 8:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
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Esther 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
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