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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #5685 - עָבַשׁ

Transliteration

ʻâbash

Phonetics

aw-bash'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

verb

TWOT

1557

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

(Qal) to shrivel, waste away

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Joel 1

BSB (1)

Joel 1

CSB (1)

Joel 1

ESV (1)

Joel 1

KJV (1)

Joel 1

LEB (1)

Joel 1

LSB (1)

Joel 1

N95 (1)

Joel 1

NAS (1)

Joel 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Joel 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2521) s b o (אהבסה AhBSh) AC: Rot CO: ? AB: ?: Something that is withered and dried up. [from: sb- dried up]

V) s b o (אהבסה AhBSh) - Rot: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) rot - Strongs: H5685 (עָבַשׁ)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[עָבַשׁ] verb shrivel (compare Arabic

contract (especially face), frown); —

Qal Perfect 3 masculine plural עָֽבְשׁוּ פְרֻדוֺת Joel 1:17 the grains have shrivelled (compare Dr Now).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

עָבַשׁ ἅπ. λεγόμ. Joel 1:17, used of seed which, by too much heat when under ground, wastes a way, decays, œstu vanescit, to use the term which Pliny has appropriated to this matter (H. N. xiv. 24); Germ. verdummen. With this agrees Ch. עֲפַשׁ prop. to rot, specially used of seeds perishing in the earth (see Buxtorf, Lex. Chald. p. 1642; Bochart, Hieroz. ii. 471). That a word signifying to rot may also be so wide in use as to be applied to seed, œstu vanescens, is shewn by the Gr. πύθομαι, Hesiod. Scut. Herc. 153. Abulwalid compares Arab. عَبِسَ i.e. يبس to dry up.

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List of Word Forms

עָבְשׁ֣וּ עבשו ‘ā·ḇə·šū ‘āḇəšū aveShu