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# אֹבֵד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8

**destruction** — used 2 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/1488/8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֹבֵד: destruction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] destruction, עֲדֵי א׳ Nu 24:20, 24 (JE; on form with abstract sense v. BaNB 149).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: destruction (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 24:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.24/#tree)

וְצִים֙ מִיַּ֣ד כִּתִּ֔ים וְעִנּ֥וּ אַשּׁ֖וּר וְעִנּוּ־עֵ֑בֶר וְגַם־ה֖וּא עֲדֵ֥י אֹבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and ships \[will be\].from.the.side of.Kittim and they.will.afflict Asshur and they.will.afflict Eber and also he \[will.be\].to destruction

*JPS 1917:* But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall come to destruction.

[Numbers 24:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.20/#tree)

וַיַּרְא֙ אֶת־עֲמָלֵ֔ק וַיִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁל֖וֹ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר רֵאשִׁ֤ית גּוֹיִם֙ עֲמָלֵ֔ק וְאַחֲרִית֖וֹ עֲדֵ֥י אֹבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.saw (et) Amalek and he.lifted.up oracle his and he.said \[was.the\].first of.\[the\].nations Amalek and end its \[will.be\].to destruction

*JPS 1917:* And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said: Amalek was the first of the nations; but his end shall come to destruction.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/8/): 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).