Abad

Meaning

Basically abad represents the disappearance of someone or something.

1.  In its strongest sense the word means "to die or ease to exist".

Leviticus 26:38 - "And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up."

2.  It means to bring to non-existence.

Numbers 33:52 - "And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land ofThen ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: your enemies shall eat you up."

3.  It means to go to ruin or to be ruined.

Exodus 10:7 - "And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?"

Numbers 21:29-30 - "And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowWoe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.  We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.est thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?"

4.  It means to succumb, focuses on the process rather than the conclusion.

Numbers 17:12-13 - "And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.  Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?"

5.  It means to be carried off to death or destruction by some means.

Deuteronomy 4:26 - "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed."

6.  It means to disappear but not be destroyed, to be lost.

Deuteronomy 22:3 - "In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself."

Jeremiah 50:6 - "My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place."

7.  It means to go astray, in the sense of wandering.
Deuteronomy 26:5 - "And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:"

8.  It means human qualities which are lessening or have lessened.
Deuteronomy 32:28 - "For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them."

Psalm 146:4 - "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish."

Summary

This word refers to the death of the righteousness or the wicked; to the downfall and dissolution of nations, to the desolation of countries, to wandering away of herbage and crops, to the fading away of strength, hope, wisdom , knowledge and wealth.