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# אבדה

Biblical Hebrew

**Destruction** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Destruction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5d1_5d3_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבֵדָה: n.f. lost thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5d1_5d3_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a lost thing—abs. except Dt 22:3 cstr. אֲבֵדַת—Ex 22:8; with מָצָא Lv 5:22, 23; with אָבַד + מָצָא Dt 22:3;—(אבדה Pr 27:20 Kt cf. אֲבַדּוֹ infr.)

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abaddon (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 27:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.20/#tree)

שְׁא֣וֹל וַ֭אֲבַדּוֹ לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה וְעֵינֵ֥י הָ֝אָדָ֗ם לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּֽעְנָה׃

*Word for word:* Sheol and Abaddon not they.are.satisfied and the.eyes of.(the) person not they.are.satisfied

*JPS 1917:* The nether-world and Destruction are never satiated; so the eyes of man are never satiated.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5d1_5d3_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5d1_5d3_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).