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Leviticus 26:38
“And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.” (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
- אֲבַדְתֶּ֖ם — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 2nd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 185 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 10:7Leviticus 23:30Numbers 16:33Numbers 17:27Numbers 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.