אבדון
Hebrew
Etymology
Root |
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א־ב־ד (ʾ-b-d) |
From the root א־ב־ד (ʾ-b-d, forming words pertaining to loss) + ־ון (-on, a suffix marking places).
Pronunciation
- (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA(key): /ʔăvadˈdoːn/
- (Biblical Hebrew) IPA(key): /ʔăvadˈdoːn/, /ʔăβadˈdoːn/
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /(ʔ)a.vaˈdon/
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Noun
אֲבַדּוֹן • (avadón) m (no plural forms, no construct forms)
- oblivion, destruction, devastation, ruin, doom, damnation
- Tanach, Job 31:12, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- כִּי אֵשׁ הִיא עַד־אֲבַדּוֹן תֹּאכֵל וּבְכׇל־תְּבוּאָתִי תְשָׁרֵשׁ׃
- kî ʾēš hîʾ ʿaḏ-ʾăḇaddôn tōḵēl ûḇəḵol-təḇûʾāṯî təšārēš
- For it is a fire that consumeth unto destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
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