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title: אֲבַדּוֹן — Destruction · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲבַדּוֹן (11), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Destruction. BDB 1906: n.f. n.pr. Destruction, Ruin ʾAbaddôn. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲבַדּוֹן

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«אֲבַדּוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Destruction** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 11 · **BDB:** אֲבַדּוֹן

### Glosses

Abaddon (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Destruction [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/11/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. n.pr. Destruction, Ruin ʾAbaddôn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/11/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.? Pr 27:20 abstr. nearly = n.pr. (place of) Destruction, Ruin, ʾAbaddôn (cf. ܐܰܒܕܳܢܳܐ 𝔊 Jb 28:22 etc.)—אֲבַדּוֹן Jb 26:6 (+ 4 times); abbrev. אבדה Kt אֲבַדּוֹ(ן) Qr †Pr 27:20.—Place of ruin in Sheʾôl for lost or ruined dead, as development of earlier distinction of condition in Sheʾôl (v. שְׁאוֹל). Only in WisdLt; Jb 31:12; ‖ שׁאול Jb 26:6 Pr 15:11; 27:20; ‖ מות Jb 28:22; ‖ קבר ψ 88:12.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲבַדּוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/11/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 26:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.6/)

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עָר֣וֹם שְׁא֣וֹל נֶגְדּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת לָֽאֲבַדּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].naked Sheol before him and there.\[is\].not a.covering for (the) Abaddon

*JPS 1917:* The nether-world is naked before Him, and Destruction hath no covering.

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[Job 28:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.22/)

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אֲבַדּ֣וֹן וָ֭מָוֶת אָ֣מְר֑וּ בְּ֝אָזְנֵ֗ינוּ שָׁמַ֥עְנוּ שִׁמְעָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* Abaddon and death they.say with ears our we.have.heard report its

*JPS 1917:* Destruction and Death say: 'We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.'

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