The Abridged

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Hebrew-English Lexicon

of the Old Testament

From A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by Francis Brown, S.R. Driver, and Charles Briggs, based on the lexicon of William Gesenius

Edited by Richard Whitaker (Princeton Theological Seminary)

Text provided by Princeton Theological Seminary

1906 Houghton, Mifflin and Company

א

א Aleph, first letter; in post B Heb. = numeral 1 (and so in marg. of printed MT); א̈ = 1000; no evidence of this usage in OT times.

אָב v. II. אבה.

אבב (fresh, bright).

[אֵב] n.[m.] freshness, fresh green; concr., pl. green shoots.

אָביִב n.m. coll. 1. fresh, young ears of barley; 2. month of ear-forming, or of growing green, Abib, month of Exodus & passover.

אֲבִגַיִל v. אֲבִיגַיִל sub. II אבה.

אֲבַגְתָא n.pr.m. eunuch of Ahasuerus.

אָבַד vb. perish — Qal 1. perish, die, of individuals (mostly late); emphasis on mortality; Saul and Jonath., under fig. of weapons; lion; caravan; perish, be exterminated (judgment for sin), of Israel; other nations; house of Ahab; wicked in general; perish, be ruined, destroyed, of inanimate things, e.g. land. 2. fig. perish, vanish, subj. memory; name (i.e. be forgotten); vigour; wisdom. 3. be lost, property; strayed, beasts (fig. of erring men). Pi. caus. of Qal 1. cause to perish, destroy, kill, obj. pers. (mostly late); in judgment, subj. ˊי‍; מִתּוֹךְ; obj. a people; in judgment; obj. inanimate things esp. idols, bamôth, etc.; bars of Zion. 2. fig. cause to vanish, blot out, do away with names of idols; voice of Babylon; memory of dead; substance; understanding; good. 3. cause to stray, lose; obj. Isr. under fig. of flock. Hiph. 1. destroy, put to death, in judgment, (subj. ˊי‍) obj. pers.; obj. nation, Ammon; Canaanites; Canaan = Philistines; esp. Isr.; animals; (human subj.), obj. servants of Baal, obj. nation; obj. inanimate, chariots; idols. 2. fig., obj. name of kings; hope; voice of mirth etc.

אֹבֵד n.[m.] destruction.

אֲבֵדָה n.f. a lost thing.

אֲבַדֹּה, אֲבַדּוֹ cf. אבדון infr.

אַבְדָן, & אָבְדַן n.[m.] destruction.

אֲבַדּוֹן n.f. abstr. nearly = n.pr. (place of) Destruction, Ruin, ˓Abaddôn — Place of ruin in She˓ôl for lost or ruined dead, as development of earlier distinction of condition in She˓ôl (v. שְׁאוֹל). Only in Wisdlit.

אָבָה vb. be willing, consent — Qal be willing, sq. Inf. with ל; without ל; subj. ˊי‍; human subj.; in bad sense; esp. of perverse Isr.; subj. animal; of jealous man; bad sense; good sense; consent, yield to, sq. לוֹ (good sense); sq. לִי; sq. לַעֲצָתִי; sq.acc. תּוֹכַחְתִּי (all in bad sense).

אֶבְיוֹן adj. in want, needy, poor — needy, chiefly poor (in material things); as adj.; elsewhere subst.; subj. to oppression & abuse; cared for by good; care of them enjoined, negatively; positively; cared for by God; needing help, deliverance from trouble, esp. as delivered by God.