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1 Kings 12:8
“But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
עָזַבʻâzab · aw-zab'
H5800 · Hebrew
H5800 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, [idiom] surely.
- Grammar
- וַֽ — conjunction
- יַּעֲזֹ֛ב — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 215 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:24Genesis 24:27Genesis 28:15Genesis 39:6Genesis 39:12
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עָזַב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.