Skip to Content
H6Hebrew

אָבַד

Definition and meaning

abad (aw-bad') v. 1. (properly) to wander away, i.e. lose oneself 2. (by implication) to perish 3. (causative) to destroy [a primitive root] KJV: break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.

Tagged KJV passages

174 matching verses - 184.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Proverbs 11:7

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

Matched English: perish, perisheth
Proverbs 11:10

When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

Matched English: perish
Proverbs 19:9

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Matched English: perish
Proverbs 21:28

A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.

Matched English: perish
Proverbs 28:28

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Matched English: perish
Proverbs 29:3

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

Matched English: spendeth
Proverbs 31:6

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Matched English: perish
Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Matched English: lose
Ecclesiastes 5:14

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Matched English: perish
Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Matched English: destroyeth
Ecclesiastes 7:15

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

Matched English: perisheth
Ecclesiastes 9:6

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Matched English: perished
Ecclesiastes 9:18

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Matched English: destroyeth
Isaiah 26:14

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

Matched English: perish
Isaiah 27:13

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Matched English: perish
Isaiah 29:14

Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Matched English: perish
Isaiah 37:19

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Matched English: destroyed
Isaiah 41:11

Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

Matched English: perish
Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Matched English: perisheth
Isaiah 60:12

For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Matched English: perish
Jeremiah 1:10

See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

Matched English: destroy
Jeremiah 4:9

And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

Matched English: perish
Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

Matched English: perish
Jeremiah 7:28

But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

Matched English: perished