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1 Samuel 9:3
“And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
אָבַדʼâbad · aw-bad'
H6 · Hebrew
H6 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- 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.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- תֹּאבַ֨דְנָה֙ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 185 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 10:7Leviticus 23:30Leviticus 26:38Numbers 16:33Numbers 17:27
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 אָבַד 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.