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# אֲבַדּוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H11

**Destruction** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Destruction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/11/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבַדּוֹן: n.f. n.pr. Destruction, Ruin ʾAbaddôn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/11/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.? Pr 27:20 abstr. nearly = n.pr. (place of) Destruction, Ruin, ʾAbaddôn (cf. ܐܰܒܕܳܢܳܐ 𝔊 Jb 28:22 etc.)—אֲבַדּוֹן Jb 26:6 (+ 4 times); abbrev. אבדה Kt אֲבַדּוֹ(ן) Qr †Pr 27:20.—Place of ruin in Sheʾôl for lost or ruined dead, as development of earlier distinction of condition in Sheʾôl (v. שְׁאוֹל). Only in WisdLt; Jb 31:12; ‖ שׁאול Jb 26:6 Pr 15:11; 27:20; ‖ מות Jb 28:22; ‖ קבר ψ 88:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abaddon (5).

## In the verses

[Job 26:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.6/#tree)

עָר֣וֹם שְׁא֣וֹל נֶגְדּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת לָֽאֲבַדּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].naked Sheol before him and there.\[is\].not a.covering for (the) Abaddon

*JPS 1917:* The nether-world is naked before Him, and Destruction hath no covering.

[Job 28:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.22/#tree)

אֲבַדּ֣וֹן וָ֭מָוֶת אָ֣מְר֑וּ בְּ֝אָזְנֵ֗ינוּ שָׁמַ֥עְנוּ שִׁמְעָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* Abaddon and death they.say with ears our we.have.heard report its

*JPS 1917:* Destruction and Death say: 'We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/11/): 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).