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Judges 2:12
“And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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
- וַ — conjunction
- יַּעַזְב֞וּ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- 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.