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# אַבְדָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H12

**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/1488/12/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַבְדָ֑ן: destruction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/12/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** & אָבְדַן (cstr.) n.\[m.\] destruction (Syriac ܐܰܒܕܳܢܳܐ ) Est 9:5 (מַכַּת־חֶרֶב וְהֶרֶג וְא׳), 8:6; (on form v. BeRy; Ol§ 215 b.1 BaNB 49, 487).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Esther 9:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.5/#tree)

וַיַּכּ֤וּ הַיְּהוּדִים֙ בְּכָל־אֹ֣יְבֵיהֶ֔ם מַכַּת־חֶ֥רֶב וְהֶ֖רֶג וְאַבְדָ֑ן וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֥וּ בְשֹׂנְאֵיהֶ֖ם כִּרְצוֹנָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.struck the Jews (in) all enemies their a.blow of.sword and slaughter and destruction and they.did with \[those who\].hated.them according to their.pleasure

*JPS 1917:* And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them that hated them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/12.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/12/): 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).