To destroy
אֲבַדStrong’s H0007avad (a-vad)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avad is the Aramaic word usually translated “destroy”, “may they perish” and “it was destroyed”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.”
Meaning
- To perish, vanish(P'al) shall perish · (Aphel) destroy · (Hophal) be destroyed
How it's translated
- to destroy 2
- may they perish 1
- they will destroy 1
- you destroy 1
- and it was destroyed 1
- and to destroy 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:18In contextThat they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:24In contextTherefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 7:11In contextI beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
- Daniel 7:26In contextBut the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
- Jeremiah 10:11Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
Aramaic dictionary
אֲבַד avad · to destroy
1) to perish, vanish 1a) (P'al) shall perish 1b) (Aphel) destroy 1c) (Hophal) be destroyed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “destroy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESTROY, verb transitive
[Latin To pile, to build.]
- To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an edifice, the union of which is necessary to constitute the thing; as, to destroy a house or temple; to destroy a fortification.
- To ruin; to annihilate a thing by demolishing or by burning; as, to destroy a city.
- To ruin; to bring to naught; to annihilate; as, to destroy a theory or scheme; to destroy a government; to destroy influence.
- To lay waste; to make desolate.“Go up against this land, and destroy it” Isaiah 36:10
All definitions
- To kill; to slay; to extirpate; applied to men or other animals.“Ye shall destroy all this people” Numbers 32:15“All the wicked will he destroy” Psalms 145:20
- To take away; to cause to cease; to put an end to; as, pain destroys happiness.“That the body of sin might be destroyed” Romans 6:6
- To kill; to eat; to devour; to consume.
- In general, to put an end to; to annihilate a thing or the form in which it exists.
- In chimistry, to resolve a body into its parts or elements.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.