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): /ʔăbadˈdoːn/, /ʔăβadˈdoːn/
(Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)a.vaˈdon/

Noun

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

destruction, devastation, ruin, doom
- Job 31:12, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
  ‏כִּי אֵשׁ הִיא עַד־אֲבַדּוֹן תֹּאכֵל וּבְכָל־תְּבוּאָתִי תְשָׁרֵשׁ׃‎‎
  ki esh hi ad-avadón tokhel uv'khol-t'vu'ati t'sharesh
  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

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