אֲבֵדָה
ʾăbēdâ
a lost thing
Strong's H9NounHebrewTWOT 2b

אֲבֵדָה (ʾăbēdâ) is a Hebrew noun meaning a lost thing. It appears 4 times in 3 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H9).

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Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2b)a lost thing; lost, destruction
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

אֲבֵדָה noun, feminine: a lost thing

a lost thing; with מָצָא; with אָבַד + מָצָא

Strong's H9 אֲבֵדָה: concrete, something lost; abstract, destruction, i.e. Hades
KJV:lost.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 2: אָבַד ʾābad — perish; die, be exterminated, be ruined, destroyed, vanish, be lost, strayed; cause to perish, kill, cause to vanish, blot out, do away with, cause to stray, lose; put to death; wander; break, destruction, not escape, fail, spend…

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