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Lexicon :: Strong's H5800 - ʿāzaḇ

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עָזַב
Transliteration
ʿāzaḇ
Pronunciation
aw-zab'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1594,1595

Strong’s Definitions

עָזַב ʻâzab, aw-zab'; a primitive root; to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.:—commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, × surely.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 215x

The KJV translates Strong's H5800 in the following manner: forsake (129x), leave (72x), leave off (4x), faileth (2x), fortify (2x), help (2x), committeth (1x), destitute (1x), refuseth (1x), surely (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 215x
The KJV translates Strong's H5800 in the following manner: forsake (129x), leave (72x), leave off (4x), faileth (2x), fortify (2x), help (2x), committeth (1x), destitute (1x), refuseth (1x), surely (1x).
  1. to leave, loose, forsake

    1. (Qal) to leave

      1. to depart from, leave behind, leave, let alone

      2. to leave, abandon, forsake, neglect, apostatise

      3. to let loose, set free, let go, free

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be left to

      2. to be forsaken

    3. (Pual) to be deserted

  2. to restore, repair

    1. (Qal) to repair

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָזַב ʻâzab, aw-zab'; a primitive root; to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.:—commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, × surely.
STRONGS H5800: Abbreviations
I. עָזַב 213 verb leave, forsake, loose (Late Hebrew id. (rare); Arabic bdb073609 be remote, absent, depart, Assyrian ezêbu, leave, Shaph. ušezib, rescue, compare Biblical Aramaic H7804 שֵׁיזֵב; — Ethiopic bdb073610 widowed Di973); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ע׳ Genesis 24:27 +, suffix עֲזָבַנִי Isaiah 49:14; Psalm 38:11; 3rd person feminine singular עָזָ֑בָה Ezekiel 23:8; 1st person singular suffix עֲזַבְתִּיךְ Isaiah 54:7; 2nd person feminine plural עֲזַבְתֶּן Exodus 2:20, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַעֲזֹב Isaiah 55:7 +, יַעֲזָבֿ Genesis 2:24, suffix 1st person singular וַיַּעַזְבֵנִי 1 Samuel 30:13, etc.; Imperative עֲזֹב Psalm 37:8, עָזְבָה Jeremiah 49:11, עִזְבוּ Jeremiah 48:28; Proverbs 9:6, etc.; Infinitive absolute עָזוֺב Jeremiah 14:5, עָזֹב Exodus 23:5; construct עֲזֹב Genesis 44:22 +, suffix עָזְבֵךְ Jeremiah 2:17 +, etc.; Participle active עֹזֵב Proverbs 10:17 +, construct עֹזְבִי (Ges§ 90 l); feminine construct עֹזֶבֶת Proverbs 2:17 etc.; passive עָזוּב Deuteronomy 32:26 +, etc.; —
1. leave, with accusative (on order of meanings compare NöZMG. xl (1886). 726):
a. = depart from, accusative of person Genesis 44:22 (twice in verse) (J), 2 Kings 2:2, 4, 6; 2 Kings 4:30; Numbers 10:31 (P), Ruth 1:16; Jeremiah 9:1 (|| הָלַךְ מֵאֵת); accusative of location 1 Kings 8:6; Jeremiah 25:28 (י׳ as lion leaving lair); with מִן local intransitive (strangely) Jeremiah 18:14 (of snow).
b. leave behind, accusative of person Exodus 2:20 (J), 2 Samuel 15:16 (+ infinitive), Ezekiel 24:21; accusative of thing + בְּיַד Genesis 39:12, 13, + אֶצְלִי Genesis 39:15; Genesis 39:18 (all J); + ב location Genesis 50:8 (J); accusative of person and thing Exodus 9:21 (J).
c. leave in the presence of (לִפְנֵי) 1 Chronicles 16:37 (ל of accusative, compare ל 3b above), 2 Chronicles 28:14.
d. leave in safety, וְאָ֫נָה חַעַזְבוּ כְּבוֺדְכֶם Isaiah 10:3.
e. leave in a given condition, situation, אֹתוֺ בְמַחֲלֻיִים ע׳ 2 Chronicles 24:25 they left him in great suffering; with adverb accusative Ezekiel 23:29; a city פְּתוּחָה Joshua 8:17.
f. leave undisturbed, let alone Ruth 2:16.
g. leave unexercised, Genesis 24:27 pregnantly he hath not left his kindness and his faithfulness from (being) with (מֵעִם) my master; so חַסְדּוֺ אֶתֿ ע׳ Ruth 2:20 (both of י׳); חֵמָה ע׳ Psalm 37:8 (|| הֶרֶף מֵאַף).
h. leave in the hand of, entrust to, accusative of thing + בְּיַד Genesis 39:6 (J), + אֶלֿ Job 39:11 (|| בָּטַח בְּ), + עַלֿ Psalm 10:14 (accusative omitted, his cause). — So also possibly (with לְ) Nehemiah 3:34 (reading לֵאלֹהִים for MT לָהֶם), but text probably otherwise corrupt.
i. leave to (ל) one (unaided), וְחָדַלְתָּ֫ מֵעֲזֹב לוֺ Exodus 23:5a (E) thou shalt refrain from leaving it (that is, the affair) to him; compare תַּעֲזֹב לָאָרֶץ בֵּיצֶיהָ Job 39:14 (of ostrich).
j. leave over, remaining, accusative of person Joshua 2:21 (JE); accusative of thing + לְ person Leviticus 19:10; Leviticus 23:22 (H), Malachi 3:19 [Malachi 4:1].
k. leave = have nothing to do with Proverbs 9:6.
2. leave, abandon, forsake:
†a. abandon, accusative of thing:
(1) land, house, city, tent, etc., 1 Samuel 31:7 = 1 Chronicles 10:7; 2 Kings 7:7; Jeremiah 9:18; Jeremiah 48:28; Jeremiah 51:9; 2 Chronicles 11:14; Isaiah 17:9 (+ מִפְּנֵי of enemy); passive participle of cities Isaiah 17:2; Jeremiah 4:29; Zephaniah 2:4, compare עֲזוּבָה Isaiah 17:9 participle = substantive = deserted region.
(2) oxen 1 Kings 19:20, idol-images (+ שָׁם) 2 Samuel 5:21 = 1 Chronicles 14:12, flock Zechariah 11:17; passive participle of eggs Isaiah 10:14.
†b. forsake,
(1) human subject and object: Genesis 2:24 (J; a man his parents), 1 Samuel 30:13; Joshua 22:3 (D), Jeremiah 49:11; Psalm 27:10 (parent a child), Proverbs 2:17 (wife her husband, אַלוּף), compare עֲזוּבָה אִשָּׁה Isaiah 54:6, and ע׳ of personified Zion Isaiah 60:15; Isaiah 62:4.
(2) an animal its young Jeremiah 14:5 (object om).
†c. = neglect, Levite Deuteronomy 12:19; Deuteronomy 14:27, poor Job 20:19.
d. especially
(1) figurative of forsaking God (י׳), apostatizing, Judges 10:10; Deuteronomy 28:20; Deuteronomy 31:16; Jeremiah 1:16 + 38 times (often Jeremiah and later); + Jonah 2:9 (object חַסְדָּם, i.e. God, see חֶסֶד II); with ל + infinitive only עָֽזְבוּ לִשְׁמֹר אֶתיֿ׳ Hosea 4:10 (Oort We Now doubt לִשְׁמֹר).
(2) object י׳'s law, commands, covenant, etc., Deuteronomy 29:24; 1 Kings 19:10, 14 + 14 times; house of י׳ 2 Chronicles 24:18; Nehemiah 10:40.
† (3) forsake, fail to follow, obey advice, instruction, wisdom, reproof: 1 Kings 12:8, 13 2 Chronicles 10:8, 13; Proverbs 2:13; Proverbs 4:2, 6; Proverbs 10:17; Proverbs 15:10; Proverbs 27:10.
† (4) but also of forsaking idols Ezekiel 20:8, sins of various kinds Ezekiel 23:8; Isaiah 55:7; Proverbs 28:13 (object omitted; + מוֺדֶה confess); הַמַּשָּׁא usury Nehemiah 5:10.
e. of God's forsaking, abandoning men: Deuteronomy 31:17; Isaiah 42:16; Isaiah 49:14; Isaiah 54:7; 2 Chronicles 12:5; Ezra 9:9; Psalm 9:11; Psalm 22:2 + 8 times Psalms; + בְּיַד Nehemiah 9:28; Psalm 37:33; Psalm 16:10 thou wilt not abandon my soul לִשְׁאוֺל; of temporary abandonment 2 Chronicles 32:31 (+ infinitive of purpose); etc. (34 times in all); + Jeremiah 12:7 (י׳ abandoning his house).
†f. of God's leaving, i.e. ceasing to regard, the earth, thus giving impunity to crime, Ezekiel 8:12; Ezekiel 9:9.
†g. of strength (כֹּחַ) forsaking one Psalm 38:11, courage (לֵב) Psalm 40:13, kindness and faithfulness (חֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת) Proverbs 3:3.
†3. let loose, set free, let go עִמּוֺ עָזֹב תַּעֲזֹב Exodus 23:5b (E) thou shalt by all means free it (that is, the beast) with him, (aid him to set it free; on sense, compare Deuteronomy 22:4; DHM below II. עזב); עָצוּר וְעָזוּב shut up and freed, proverb. phrase, = all classes of people Deuteronomy 32:36; 1 Kings 14:10; 1 Kings 21:21; 2 Kings 9:8; 2 Kings 14:26 (exact meaning dubious; probably either = bond and free, or [see RSSem i. 437, 2nd ed. 456] under taboo and free from it); let go Job 20:13 (with accusative of wickedness as morsel in mouth); let loose my complaint Job 10:1 (עָלַי apud me, compare עַל II 1 d); אֶעֶזְבָה פָנַי Job 9:27 I will loosen, relax, my face, (compare Thes De Me Stu Di BuhlLex Bu; > abandon my [gloomy] countenance AV RV SS BaeKau Du).
Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נֶעֱזַב Nehemiah 13:11; 3rd person feminine singular נֶעֱזָבָ֫ה Isaiah 62:12; Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular תֵּעָזֵב Isaiah 7:16; Leviticus 26:43, תֵּעָ֣זַב Job 18:4; 3rd person masculine plural יֵעָֽזְבוּ Isaiah 18:6; Participle נֶעֱזָב Isaiah 27:10; Psalm 37:25; feminine plural נֶעֱזָבוֺת Ezekiel 36:4; —
1. be left to (לְ), i.e. to the possession of, Isaiah 18:6.
2. be forsaken, of house of God Nehemiah 13:11, a city Ezekiel 36:4; Isaiah 27:10 (|| מְשֻׁלָּח), Isaiah 62:12; the earth Job 18:4, land Isaiah 7:16; Leviticus 26:43 (+ מִן of exiles); of man Psalm 37:25.
Pu. (or Qal passive, see Ges§ 52 e) be deserted, of city: Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הֲמוֺן עִיר עֻזָּב֫ Isaiah 32:14 (|| נֻטָּ֔שׁ); 3rd person feminine singular עֻזְּבָה Jeremiah 49:25.

† II. [עָזַב] verb restore, repair (?) (compare perhaps Sabean עדֿב restore, SabDenkm90 DHMÖster. Monatsschr. f. d. Orient 1885, 226; also Late Hebrew מַעֲזִיבָה restoration, erection LevyNHWB iii. 186, Arabic bdb073801, building-stone KremerBeitr. ii. 18); —
Qal Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural וַיַּעַזְבוּ Nehemiah 3:8 and they repaired (?) Jerusalem as far as the broad wall; > paved GuZPV viii (1885), 282 f., or from √ I. עזב (see views in Be Ryle).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:24; 2:24; 24:27; 24:27; 39:6; 39:12; 39:13; 39:15; 39:18; 44:22; 44:22; 50:8

Exodus

2:20; 2:20; 9:21; 23:5; 23:5; 23:5

Leviticus

19:10; 23:22; 26:43; 26:43

Numbers

10:31

Deuteronomy

12:19; 14:27; 22:4; 28:20; 29:24; 31:16; 31:17; 32:26; 32:36

Joshua

2:21; 8:17; 22:3

Judges

10:10

Ruth

1:16; 2:16; 2:20

1 Samuel

30:13; 30:13; 31:7

2 Samuel

5:21; 15:16

1 Kings

8:6; 12:8; 12:13; 14:10; 19:10; 19:14; 19:20; 21:21

2 Kings

2:2; 2:4; 2:6; 4:30; 7:7; 9:8; 14:26

1 Chronicles

10:7; 14:12; 16:37

2 Chronicles

10:8; 10:13; 11:14; 12:5; 24:18; 24:25; 28:14; 32:31

Ezra

9:9

Nehemiah

3:8; 5:10; 9:28; 13:11; 13:11

Job

9:27; 10:1; 18:4; 18:4; 20:13; 20:19; 39:11; 39:14

Psalms

9:11; 10:14; 16:10; 22:2; 27:10; 37:8; 37:8; 37:25; 37:25; 37:33; 38:11; 38:11; 40:13

Proverbs

2:13; 2:17; 2:17; 3:3; 4:2; 4:6; 9:6; 9:6; 10:17; 10:17; 15:10; 27:10; 28:13

Isaiah

7:16; 7:16; 10:3; 10:14; 17:2; 17:9; 17:9; 18:6; 18:6; 27:10; 27:10; 32:14; 42:16; 49:14; 49:14; 54:6; 54:7; 54:7; 55:7; 55:7; 60:15; 62:4; 62:12; 62:12

Jeremiah

1:16; 2:17; 4:29; 9:1; 9:18; 12:7; 14:5; 14:5; 18:14; 25:28; 48:28; 48:28; 49:11; 49:11; 49:25; 51:9

Ezekiel

8:12; 9:9; 20:8; 23:8; 23:8; 23:29; 24:21; 36:4; 36:4

Hosea

4:10

Jonah

2:9

Zephaniah

2:4

Zechariah

11:17

Malachi

4:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5800 matches the Hebrew עָזַב (ʿāzaḇ),
which occurs 215 times in 206 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 2:24–1Ki 9:9)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:27 - saying "Praised be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master! The LORD has led me to the house of my master's relatives!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:15 - I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:6 - So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph's care; he gave no thought to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12 - She grabbed him by his outer garment, saying, "Have sex with me!" But he left his outer garment in her hand and ran outside.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:13 - When she saw that he had left his outer garment in her hand and had run outside,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:15 - When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:18 - but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his outer garment and ran outside."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:22 - We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - all Joseph's household, his brothers, and his father's household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:20 - He said to his daughters, "So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:21 - but those who did not take the word of the LORD seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:5 - If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, you must not ignore him, but be sure to help him with it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:10 - You must not pick your vineyard bare, and you must not gather up the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22 - When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - The land will be abandoned by them in order that it may make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them, and they will make up for their iniquity because they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred my statutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - Moses said, "Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:19 - Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:27 - As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:20 - "The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:25 - Then people will say, "Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:6 - Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or tremble before them, for the LORD your God is the one who is going with you. He will not fail you or abandon you!"
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:8 - The LORD is indeed going before you - he will be with you; he will not fail you or abandon you. Do not be afraid or discouraged!"
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:16 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:17 - At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time, 'Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:36 - The LORD will judge his people, and will change his plans concerning his servants; when he sees that their power has disappeared, and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:5 - No one will be able to resist you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not abandon you or leave you alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - No men were left in Ai or Bethel; they all went out after Israel. They left the city wide open and chased Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:3 - You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites this entire time, right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:16 - The people responded, "Far be it from us to abandon the LORD so we can worship other gods!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:20 - If you abandon the LORD and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 - They abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods - the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the LORD angry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:13 - They abandoned the LORD and worshiped Baal and the Ashtars.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:21 - So I will no longer remove before them any of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:6 - The Israelites again did evil in the LORD's sight. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtars, as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. They abandoned the LORD and did not worship him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:10 - The Israelites cried out for help to the LORD: "We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:13 - But since you abandoned me and worshiped other gods, I will not deliver you again.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:16 - But Ruth replied, "Stop urging me to abandon you! For wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live. Your people will become my people, and your God will become my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - Boaz replied to her, "I have been given a full report of all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband - how you left your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:16 - Make sure you pull out ears of grain for her and drop them so she can gather them up. Don't tell her not to!"
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:20 - Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be rewarded by the LORD because he has shown loyalty to the living on behalf of the dead!" Then Naomi said to her, "This man is a close relative of ours; he is our guardian."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:8 - Just as they have done from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:10 - Then they cried out to the LORD and admitted, 'We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:13 - David said to him, "To whom do you belong, and where are you from?" The young man said, "I am an Egyptian, the servant of an Amalekite man. My master abandoned me when I was ill for three days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:7 - When the men of Israel who were in the valley and across the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled. The Philistines came and occupied them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:21 - The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men picked them up.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:16 - So the king and all the members of his royal court set out on foot, though the king left behind ten concubines to attend to the palace.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:13 - I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:57 - May the LORD our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:9 - Others will then answer, 'Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who led their ancestors out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. That is why the LORD has brought all this disaster down on them.'"

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