אבדון

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
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/

• Audio:

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Noun

אֲבַדּוֹן • (avadón) m (no plural forms, no construct forms)

1. 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

• → Ancient Greek: Ἀβαδδών (Abaddṓn)
  • Greek: Αβαδδών (Avaddón)
  • → Latin: Abaddōn
    • → German: Abaddon
    • → Middle English: Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon
      • English: Abaddon
    • → Spanish: Abadón
  • → Russian: Абаддо́н (Abaddón)
• → Arabic: اَبَادُون (abādūn)

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