אבדון
Hebrew
Etymology
Root |
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א־ב־ד |
From the root א־ב־ד (ʾ-b-d, “Forming words pertaining to loss”) + ־ון (-on, “A suffix marking places”).
Pronunciation
- (Biblical Hebrew, Tiberian Hebrew) IPA(key): /ʔăvadˈdoːn/
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /(ʔ)a.vaˈdon/
Noun
אֲבַדּוֹן • (avadon) m (no plural forms, no construct forms)
- destruction, devastation, ruin, doom
- כִּי אֵשׁ הִיא עַד־אֲבַדֹּון תֹּאכֵל וּֽבְכָל־תְּבוּאָתִי תְשָׁרֵֽשׁ׃
- For it is a fire that will consume until devastation and will uproot all my produce. - Job 31:12
Descendants
References
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
- H11 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
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