אֹבֵד
ʼôbêd · H8 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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destruction
Process of disappearing or being removed from existence; either by (a usually unnatural) death, aggression, hardship, disaster, natural processes, acts of destruction, or direct divine intervention
ExamplesNumbers 24:20 And he looked at Amalek and took up his discourse and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, But his end shall be destruction.”
Numbers 24:24 “But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall oppress Asshur and oppress Eber; So they also will come to destruction.”
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to be permanent
Process of having permanence through time
ExamplesNumbers 24:20 And he looked at Amalek and took up his discourse and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, But his end shall be destruction.”
Numbers 24:24 “But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall oppress Asshur and oppress Eber; So they also will come to destruction.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַדto, as far as, until 2
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀπόλλυμι apóllymi · G622 · to ruin, to destroy, destruction
- Greek ἀπόλλυμι renders Hebrew אֹבֵד in LXX contexts denoting destruction or perishing, capturing the same core semantic of cessation through loss or ruin.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Non-Exist002002002006
- אֹבֵד describes a coming to nothing or ceasing to exist, as Amalek's end being described as destruction.
- Dead002001001018
- The word can describe perishing or ruin befalling a people or nation.
- Endure002002003001
- The term stands in contrast to enduring or lasting, marking a failure to continue or survive.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8. obed אֹבֵד noun [masculine] destruction, א ׳עֲדֵי Num 24:20, Num 24:24 (J E; on form…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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