אַבְדָן
ʼabdân · H12 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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destruction, extermination
Process of removing people from existence; by means of aggression and violence
ExamplesEsther 9:5 So the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying; and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- תַּבְלִית tablîyth · H8399 · destruction
- Both lexemes genuinely denote destruction/non-existence and share the same gloss, making them plausible near-synonyms in Hebrew. Both are hapax legomena (occurrence_count=1), so corpus evidence is inherently thin, but the semantic alignment is clear.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Non-Exist002002002006
- אַבְדָן describes bringing enemies to nothing, the annihilation carried out against them.
- Dead002001001018
- The word can denote the killing that results in destruction, as enemies being struck down.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H12. abdan אַבְדָ֑ן, & אָבְדַן (construct) noun [masculine] destruction (Syriac ) Est 9:5…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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