עָזַב

a.zav · to leave: forsake

Hebrew · Strong's H5800 · Verb · Sounds like: aw-zab' · 215 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to leave: forsake H5800A 195
  • to leave: release H5800C · a Meaning of 11
  • to leave: neglect H5800H · a Meaning of 7
  • to restore H5800B 1
  • Forsaken H5800G · a Name of 1

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.; commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, [idiom] surely.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
עָזַב 213 vb. leave, forsake, loose
Qal
1. leave, c. acc.
2. leave, abandon, forsake
3. let loose, set free, let go
Niph.
1. be left to
2. be forsaken, of house of God
Pu. (or Qal pass.) be deserted, of city
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[עָזַב] vb. restore, repair (?);—Qal Ne 3:8

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:6 וַיַּֽעַזְבֻ֑הוּ vai.ya.'az.Vu.hu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Jehovah, and turned their backs.

  2. 2 Chronicles 32:31 עֲזָב֖וֹ a.za.Vo · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

  3. 2 Chronicles 34:25 עֲזָב֗וּנִי 'a.za.Vu.ni · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched.

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