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Destruction

אֹבֵדStrong’s H0008

oved (o-ved)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Oved is the Hebrew word usually translated “destruction”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.”
Numbers 24:20 KJV
Meaning
  1. Destruction
How it's translated
  • destruction 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

אֹבֵד oved · destruction

destruction

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “destruction” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DESTRUCTION, noun

  1. The act of destroying; demolition; a pulling down; subversion; ruin, by whatever means; as the destruction of buildings, or of towns. destruction consists in the annihilation of the form of any theing; that form of parts which constitues it what it is; as the destruction of grass or herbage by eating; of a forest, by cutting down the trees; or it denotes a total annihilation; as the destruction of a particular government; the destruction of happiness.
  2. Death; murder; slaughter; massacre.“There was a deadly destruction throughout all the city” 1 Samuel 5:11
  3. Ruin.“DESTRUCTION and misery are in their ways” Romans 3:16
  4. Eternal death.“Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction” Matthew 7:13
All definitions
  1. Cause of destruction; a consuming plague; a destroyer.“The destruction that wasteth at noon-day” Psalms 91:6

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.