אָבַד ʼâbad — properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself
Translated in the KJV as break, destroy, not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, × and surely, take, be undone, × utterly.
a primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy).
ʼâbad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 39Perfect (qatal) 34Sequential perfect (weqatal) 17Participle (active) 14Infinitive construct 7Wayyiqtol 3Infinitive absolute 3Cohortative 1
And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
Pi'el
Infinitive construct 11Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Wayyiqtol 7Perfect (qatal) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Infinitive absolute 4Participle (active) 1
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day;
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
Hiph'il
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 14Infinitive construct 9Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1Cohortative 1
And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›