Destruction
אַבְדָ֑ןStrong’s H0012avdan (av-dan)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Avdan is the Hebrew word usually translated “destruction”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.”
Meaning
- Destruction
How it's translated
- and destruction 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אַבְדָ֑ן avdan · 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
- 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.
- Death; murder; slaughter; massacre.“There was a deadly destruction throughout all the city” 1 Samuel 5:11
- Ruin.“DESTRUCTION and misery are in their ways” Romans 3:16
- Eternal death.“Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction” Matthew 7:13
All definitions
- 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.