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title: אבדה — Destruction · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אבדה (lemma:אבדה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Destruction. BDB 1906: n.f. lost thing. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אבדה

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«אבדה» 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 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:אבדה · **BDB:** אֲבֵדָה

### Glosses

Abaddon (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Destruction [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5d1_5d3_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. lost thing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5d1_5d3_5d4/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a lost thing—abs. except Dt 22:3 cstr. אֲבֵדַת—Ex 22:8; with מָצָא Lv 5:22, 23; with אָבַד + מָצָא Dt 22:3;—(אבדה Pr 27:20 Kt cf. אֲבַדּוֹ infr.)

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אבדה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5d1_5d3_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 27:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.20/)

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שְׁא֣וֹל וַ֭אֲבַדּוֹ לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה וְעֵינֵ֥י הָ֝אָדָ֗ם לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּֽעְנָה׃

*Word for word:* Sheol and Abaddon not they.are.satisfied and the.eyes of.(the) person not they.are.satisfied

*JPS 1917:* The nether-world and Destruction are never satiated; so the eyes of man are never satiated.

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