To perish
אָבַדStrong’s H0006avad (a-vad)
Appears in 174 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avad is the Hebrew word usually translated “destroy”, “perish” and “it has perished”. It appears in 174 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.”
Meaning
- Perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed(Qal) · (Piel) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- and i will destroy 9
- they will perish 8
- it has perished 6
- it will be lost 6
- and to destroy 6
- it will perish 5
- and you will perish 5
- you will perish 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 26
- Jeremiah 26
- Deuteronomy 19
- Job 15
- Ezekiel 14
- Esther 11
25 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 10:7And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
- Leviticus 23:30And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
- Leviticus 26:38And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
- Numbers 16:33They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
- Numbers 17:12And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
- Numbers 21:29Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
All 174 verses, by book
- Exodus 1
- 10:7
- Judges 1
- 5:31
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1:27
- Psalms 26
- 1:62:125:69:39:59:69:1810:1621:1031:1237:2041:549:1068:273:2780:1683:1792:9102:26112:10119:92119:95119:176142:4143:12146:4
- Jeremiah 26
- 1:104:96:217:289:1210:1512:1715:718:718:1823:125:1025:3527:1027:1531:2840:1546:848:848:3648:4649:749:3850:651:1851:55
- Joel 1
- 1:11
- Zechariah 1
- 9:5
Hebrew dictionary
אָבַד avad · to perish
1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) perish, die, be exterminated 1a2) perish, vanish (fig.) 1a3) be lost, strayed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate 1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.) 1b3) cause to stray, lose 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to destroy, put to death 1c1a) of divine judgment 1c2) object name of kings (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: a.vad (אֲבַד "to destroy" H0007)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “perish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PER'ISH, verb intransitive
[Latin pereo, supposed to be compounded of per and eo, to go; literally, to depart wholly.]
- To die; to lose life in any manner; applied to animals.
- To die; to wither and decay; applied to plants.
- To waste away; as, a leg or an arm has perished.
- To be in a state of decay or passing away.
All definitions and other forms of “perish”
- To be destroyed; to come to nothing.
- To fail entirely or to be extirpated. 2 Kings 9:8
- To be burst or ruined; as, the bottles shall perish
- To be wasted or rendered useless. Jeremiah 9:12
- To be injured or tormented. 1 Corinthians 8:11
- To be lost eternally; to be sentenced to endless misery. 2 Peter 2:12
PER'ISH, verb transitive
To destroy. [Not legitimate.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.