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Lexicon :: Strong's H6 - 'āḇaḏ

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אָבַד
Transliteration
'āḇaḏ
Pronunciation
aw-bad'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2

Strong’s Definitions

אָבַד ʼâbad, aw-bad'; a primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy):—break, destroy(-uction), not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, × and surely, take, be undone, × utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 184x

The KJV translates Strong's H6 in the following manner: perish (98x), destroy (62x), lose (10x), fail (2x), surely (2x), utterly (2x), broken (1x), destruction (1x), escape (1x), flee (1x), spendeth (1x), take (1x), undone (1x), void (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 184x
The KJV translates Strong's H6 in the following manner: perish (98x), destroy (62x), lose (10x), fail (2x), surely (2x), utterly (2x), broken (1x), destruction (1x), escape (1x), flee (1x), spendeth (1x), take (1x), undone (1x), void (1x).
  1. perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed

    1. (Qal)

      1. perish, die, be exterminated

      2. perish, vanish (fig.)

      3. be lost, strayed

    2. (Piel)

      1. to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate

      2. to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.)

      3. cause to stray, lose

    3. (Hiphil)

      1. to destroy, put to death

        1. of divine judgment

      2. object name of kings (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָבַד ʼâbad, aw-bad'; a primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy):—break, destroy(-uction), not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, × and surely, take, be undone, × utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
STRONGS H6: Abbreviations
אָבַד verb perish (Mesha-Inscription אבד, Assyrian abâtu DlW 184 Aramaic H7 אֲבַד, dfbA). —
Qal Perfect א׳ Numbers 21:30 +; אָֽבְדוּ Psalm 10:16 + (+ Ezekiel 6:3 Greek Version of the LXX Co) etc.; Imperfect יאֹבַד Job 3:3; Jeremiah 4:9; יאֹבֵ֑דּ Job 20:7 + 2 times; 3rd person feminine singular תּאֹבַד Deuteronomy 22:3 + 4 times; תּאֹבֵ֑ד Job 8:13 + 3 times; יאֹבְדוּ Judges 5:31 + 3 times; יאֹבֵ֑דוּ Job 4:9 +; 3rd person feminine plural וַתּאֹבַדְנָה 1 Samuel 9:3; תּאֹבֵדוּן Deuteronomy 4:26 +; נאֹבֵ֑ד Jonah 1:6; Jonah 3:9; נאֹבְדָה Jonah 1:14, etc.; Infinitive absolute אָבדֹ Deuteronomy 4:26 + 2 times; construct אֲבדֹ Deuteronomy 7:20; Proverbs 11:10; אֲבָדְךָ Deuteronomy 28:20; אָבְדֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 28:22; אֲבָדְכֶם Joshua 23:13; אָבְדָם Obadiah 12; Proverbs 28:28; Participle אוֺבֵד Deuteronomy 26:5 + 7:t.; construct אֹבַד Deuteronomy 32:28 (before ע ? see Di. Bö§ 378); etc.
1. perish, die, of individuals (mostly late) Numbers 17:27 (|| נוע & (see Numbers 17:28) מות, (also Deuteronomy 26:5 ? compare below) Jonah 1:6, 14; Job 31:19; compare Job 29:13; Proverbs 31:6; Esther 4:14, 16 (twice in verse); Micah 4:9; Jeremiah 40:15 compare Isaiah 57:1; Proverbs 11:10; Proverbs 28:28; Ecclesiastes 7:15; Psalm 119:92; emphasis on mortality Job 4:20; Psalm 146:4; Ecclesiastes 9:6; Saul & Jonathan, under figure of weapons 2 Samuel 1:27; lion Job 4:11; caravan Job 6:18 (compare Di); compare מִן־הָאָרֶץ חָסִיד א׳ Micah 7:2, מֶלֶח מֵעַזָּה וא׳ Zechariah 9:5; perish, be exterminated (judgment for sin), of Israel Leviticus 26:38; Deuteronomy 8:19 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 8:20; Deuteronomy 28:20; Deuteronomy 20:22; Deuteronomy 30:18 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 27:10, 15; compare Jeremiah 6:21; Obadiah 12; compare Psalm 80:17; Isaiah 27:13; other nations Deuteronomy 7:20; Jeremiah 10:15; Jeremiah 51:18; Psalm 2:12; Psalm 10:16; Psalm 83:18; compare Psalm 9:4; Amos 1:8; Isaiah 41:11; Isaiah 60:12 compare Jonah 3:9 see also Exodus 10:7; Numbers 21:29, 30 (JE) Jeremiah 48:46; house of Ahab 2 Kings 9:8; wicked in general Judges 5:31; Job 4:9 compare Job 4:7, Psalm 37:20; Psalm 49:11; Psalm 68:3 (|| simile of melting wax), Psalm 73:27; Psalm 92:10; also Proverbs 19:9; Proverbs 21:18; לָנֶצַח א׳ Job 20:7; compare דֶּרֶח רְשָׁעִים א׳ Psalm 1:6; followed by מֵעַל הָאָ֑רֶץ (of annihilation of Israel) Deuteronomy 4:26 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 11:17; Joshua 23:13, 16 (D); followed by מִתּוֺח הַקָּהָל (of Korah's company) Numbers 16:33 (JE); perish, be ruined, destroyed, of inanimate things, e.g. land Jeremiah 9:11 (|| נִצְּתָה כַמִּדְבָּר compare Jeremiah 48:8; harvest Joel 1:11; Jonah's gourd Jonah 4:10; riches Jeremiah 48:36; Ecclesiastes 5:13; vessel Psalm 31:13; houses Amos 3:15 (so often Assyrian Dlw); city Ezekiel 26:17 (but strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co); compare bamôth Ezekiel 6:3 Greek Version of the LXX Co; heavens & earth Psalm 102:27.
2. figurative perish, vanish, subject memory Job 18:17; Psalm 9:7; name Psalm 41:6 (i.e. be forgotten); vigour Job 30:2; wisdom Isaiah 29:14; compare אֹבַד עֵצוֺת Deuteronomy 32:28; אֱמוּנָה Jeremiah 7:28 (|| נִכְרְתָה); חָזוֺן Ezekiel 12:22; יוֺם Job 3:3 (i.e. be blotted out); לֵב Jeremiah 4:9 (i.e. courage fail); תִּקְוָה Psalm 9:19; Proverbs 10:28; Proverbs 11:7; Ezekiel 19:5; Ezekiel 37:11; Job 8:13; so תַּאֲוָה Psalm 112:10 (i.e. comes to naught); תּוֺחֶלֶת Proverbs 11:7, followed by מִן + agent Lamentations 3:18; עֵצָה + תּוֺרָה followed by מן + persons negligent Jeremiah 18:18; Ezekiel 7:26, compare Jeremiah 49:7; especially מָנוֺס מִן־ א׳ (i.e. they could not escape) Amos 2:14; Jeremiah 25:35; Job 11:20; Psalm 142:5.
3. be lost, strayed, asses 1 Samuel 9:3, 20; sheep Jeremiah 50:6; Ezekiel 34:4, 16; Psalm 119:176 (figurative of erring men); perhaps Deuteronomy 26:5.
Pi. causative of Qal. — Perfect אִבַּד 2 Kings 21:3 + 2 times; suffix וְאִבֶּדְךָ Co Ezekiel 28:16 compare below; אִבַּדְתִּי Jeremiah 15:7; וְאִבַּדְתִּ֫י Ezekiel 6:3 (Greek Version of the LXX Co וְאָֽבְּדוּ) etc.; Imperfect יְאַבֵּד Ecclesiastes 9:18; וִיאַבֵּד Ecclesiastes 7:7; Zephaniah 2:13; 1st person singular suffix וָאַבֶּדְךָ Ezekiel 28:16 (for וָאֲאַבּ׳ Ew§ 72 c Ol§ 79 a Kö I:338 Ges§ 68 fin; but Co 3rd person masculine singular; see also Co Ezekiel 38:14); תְּאַבְּדוּן Deuteronomy 12:2 etc.; Infinitive absolute אַבֵּד Deuteronomy 12:2 + 3 times; construct id. Ezekiel 22:27 + etc.; Participle מְאַבְּדִים Jeremiah 23:1.
1. cause to perish, destroy, kill, object person (mostly late) 2 Kings 11:1; Esther 3:9; Esther 4:7; Esther 8:5; Esther 9:24; || הרג Esther 9:6, 12; || הרג + השׁמיד Esther 3:13; Esther 7:4; Esther 8:11; || המם Esther 9:24; compare Psalm 119:95; object נְפָשׁוֺת Ezekiel 22:17 (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co); in judgment, subject י׳ Psalm 5:7; compare Proverbs 1:32; followed by מִתּוֺח Ezekiel 28:16; object a people 2 Kings 13:7; 2 Kings 19:18 = Isaiah 37:19; Job 12:13; in judgment Deuteronomy 11:4; Jeremiah 12:17; Jeremiah 15:7; Zephaniah 2:13; Psalm 9:6; compare Psalm 21:11; object inanimate things especially idols, bamôth etc., Numbers 33:52 (twice in verse); (J) Deuteronomy 12:2 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 21:3; Ezekiel 6:3 (but compare Greek Version of the LXX Co above); bars of Zion Lamentations 2:9 (|| שִׁבַּר).
2. figurative cause to vanish, blot out, do away with names of idols Deuteronomy 12:3; voice of Babylon Jeremiah 51:55; memory of dead Isaiah 26:14; substance Proverbs 29:3; understanding Ecclesiastes 7:7; good (טוֺבָה q. v.) Ecclesiastes 9:18.
3. cause to stray, lose; object Israel under figure of flock Jeremiah 23:1 (|| הֵפִיץ); absolute Ecclesiastes 3:6 (|| בִּקֵּשׁ).
Hiph. Perfect וְהֶאֱבִּיד Numbers 24:19; הֶאֱבַ֑דְתָּ Job 14:19 etc.; Imperfect אֹבִידָה Jeremiah 46:8 (Ges§ 68, 2 R. 1). Infinitive construct הַאֲבִיד 2 Kings 10:19 + etc.; Participle מַאֲבִיד Deuteronomy 8:20.
1. destroy, put to death, in judgment, (subject י׳) object person Leviticus 23:30 (followed by מִקֶּרֶב עַמָּהּ; || כָּרַת Leviticus 23:29); Jeremiah 49:38 (followed by מִשָּׁם); Obadiah 8 (followed by מֵאֱדוֺם); object nation, Ammon Ezekiel 25:7 (followed by מן־הארצות; || כָּרַת), compare Ezekiel 25:16; Canaanites Deuteronomy 8:20 (followed by סִפְּנֵיכֶם); Canaan = Philistines Zephaniah 2:5 (|| כָּרַת); especially Israel Deuteronomy 28:51, 63 (|| הִשְׁמִיד), compare Joshua 7:7; also absolute Jeremiah 18:7 (|| לִנְתוֺשׁ וְלִנְתוֺץ); = Jeremiah 1:10 (+ וְלַהֲרוֺס) = Jeremiah 31:28 (+ וּלְהָרֵעַ); animals Ezekiel 32:13 (followed by מֵעַל מַיִם רַבִּים); compare Deuteronomy 7:10; Psalm 143:12 (|| הִצְמִית); (human subject), object servants of Baal 2 Kings 10:19, object nation Deuteronomy 9:3, compare Numbers 24:19 (E; followed by מֵעִיר); 2 Kings 24:2; compare Jeremiah 46:8; object inanimate, chariots Micah 5:9; idols Ezekiel 30:13 (strike out B Co).
2. figurative, object name of kings Deuteronomy 7:24 (followed by מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם); hope Job 14:19; voice of mirth etc. Jeremiah 25:10 (compare Jeremiah 51:55 Pi. above).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

10:7

Leviticus

23:29; 23:30; 26:38

Numbers

16:33; 21:29; 21:30; 21:30; 24:19; 24:19; 33:52

Deuteronomy

4:26; 4:26; 4:26; 7:10; 7:20; 7:20; 7:24; 8:19; 8:20; 8:20; 8:20; 9:3; 11:4; 11:17; 12:2; 12:2; 12:2; 12:3; 22:3; 26:5; 26:5; 26:5; 28:20; 28:20; 28:22; 28:51; 28:63; 30:18; 32:28; 32:28

Joshua

7:7; 23:13; 23:13; 23:16

Judges

5:31; 5:31

1 Samuel

9:3; 9:3; 9:20

2 Samuel

1:27

2 Kings

9:8; 10:19; 10:19; 11:1; 13:7; 19:18; 21:3; 21:3; 24:2

Esther

3:9; 3:13; 4:7; 4:14; 4:16; 7:4; 8:5; 8:11; 9:6; 9:12; 9:24; 9:24

Job

3:3; 3:3; 4:7; 4:9; 4:9; 4:11; 4:20; 6:18; 8:13; 8:13; 11:20; 12:13; 14:19; 14:19; 18:17; 20:7; 20:7; 29:13; 30:2; 31:19

Psalms

1:6; 2:12; 5:7; 9:4; 9:6; 9:7; 9:19; 10:16; 10:16; 21:11; 31:13; 37:20; 41:6; 49:11; 68:3; 73:27; 80:17; 83:18; 92:10; 102:27; 112:10; 119:92; 119:95; 119:176; 142:5; 143:12; 146:4

Proverbs

1:32; 10:28; 11:7; 11:7; 11:10; 11:10; 19:9; 21:18; 28:28; 28:28; 29:3; 31:6

Ecclesiastes

3:6; 5:13; 7:7; 7:7; 7:15; 9:6; 9:18; 9:18

Isaiah

26:14; 27:13; 29:14; 37:19; 41:11; 57:1; 60:12

Jeremiah

1:10; 4:9; 4:9; 6:21; 7:28; 9:11; 10:15; 12:17; 15:7; 15:7; 18:7; 18:18; 23:1; 23:1; 25:10; 25:35; 27:10; 27:15; 31:28; 40:15; 46:8; 46:8; 48:8; 48:36; 48:46; 49:7; 49:38; 50:6; 51:18; 51:55; 51:55

Lamentations

2:9; 3:18

Ezekiel

6:3; 6:3; 6:3; 6:3; 7:26; 12:22; 19:5; 22:17; 22:27; 25:7; 25:16; 26:17; 28:16; 28:16; 28:16; 30:13; 32:13; 34:4; 34:16; 37:11; 38:14

Joel

1:11

Amos

1:8; 2:14; 3:15

Obadiah

1:8; 1:12; 1:12

Jonah

1:6; 1:6; 1:14; 1:14; 3:9; 3:9; 4:10

Micah

4:9; 5:9; 7:2

Zephaniah

2:5; 2:13; 2:13

Zechariah

9:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6 matches the Hebrew אָבַד ('āḇaḏ),
which occurs 185 times in 174 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Exo 10:7–Est 8:11)

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:7 - Par`oh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD, their God. Don't you yet know that Mitzrayim is destroyed?
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30 - Whoever it is who does any manner of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38 - You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:33 - So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into She'ol: and the eretz closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:12 - The children of Yisra'el spoke to Moshe, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:29 - Woe to you, Mo'av! You are undone, people of Kemosh: He has given his sons as fugitives, His daughters into captivity, To Sichon king of the Amori.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:30 - We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Divon, We have laid waste even to Nofach, Which reaches to Medeva.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:19 - Out of Ya`akov shall one have dominion, Shall destroy the remnant from the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:26 - I call heaven and eretz to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Yarden to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:10 - and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:20 - Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:24 - He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:19 - It shall be, if you shall forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:20 - As the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:3 - Know therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so shall you drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as the LORD has spoken to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - and what he did to the army of Mitzrayim, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Sea of Suf to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:2 - You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:3 - So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, A Arammian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Mitzrayim, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:20 - The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:22 - The LORD will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63 - It shall happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:18 - I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Yarden to go in to possess it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:28 - For they are a nation void of counsel, There is no understanding in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:7 - Yehoshua said, Alas, Lord GOD, why have you at all brought this people over the Yarden, to deliver us into the hand of the Amori, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and lived beyond the Yarden!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:16 - When you disobey the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them; then will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:31 - So let all your enemies perish, LORD: But let those who love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. The land had rest forty years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:3 - The donkeys of Kish, Sha'ul's father, were lost. Kish said to Sha'ul his son, Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:20 - As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don't set your mind on them; for they are found. For whom is all that is desirable in Yisra'el? Is it not for you, and for all your father's house?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:27 - How are the mighty fallen, The weapons of war perished!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8 - For the whole house of Ach'av shall perish; and I will cut off from Ach'av every man-child, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Yisra'el.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:19 - Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Ba`al, all his worshippers, and all his Kohanim; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Ba`al; whoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Yehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Ba`al.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:1 - Now when `Atalyah the mother of Achazyah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - For he didn't leave to Yeho'achaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Aram destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:18 - and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - For he built again the high places which Hizkiyahu his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Ba`al, and made an Asherah, as did Ach'av king of Yisra'el, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2 - The LORD sent against him bands of the Kasdim, and bands of the Aram, and bands of the Mo`avim, and bands of the children of `Ammon, and sent them against Yehudah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:9 - If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have the charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - Letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Yehudim, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - Mordekhai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Yehudim, to destroy them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - For if you altogether hold your shalom at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Yehudim from another place, but you and your father's house will perish: and who knows whether you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:16 - Go, gather together all the Yehudim who are present in Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:4 - for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I had held my shalom, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:5 - She said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedata the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Yehudim who are in all the king's provinces:
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:11 - in which the king granted the Yehudim who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

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