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. Jeremiah 1:16 עֲזָב֗וּנִי 'a.za.Vu.ni · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

  2. Jeremiah 2:13 עָזְב֜וּ 'a.ze.Vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

  3. Jeremiah 2:17 עָזְבֵךְ֙ 'a.ze.veKh · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way?

  4. Jeremiah 2:19 עָזְבֵ֖ךְ 'a.ze.Vekh · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

  5. Jeremiah 4:29 עֲזוּבָ֔ה 'a.zu.Vah · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

    Every city fleeth for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.

  6. Jeremiah 5:7 עֲזָב֔וּנִי 'a.za.Vu.ni · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.

  7. Jeremiah 5:19 עֲזַבְתֶּ֤ם 'a.zav.Tem · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you

    And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say unto them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

  8. Jeremiah 9:2 וְאֶֽעֶזְבָה֙ ve.'e.'ez.Vah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

  9. Jeremiah 9:13 עָזְבָם֙ 'a.ze.Vam · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

  10. Jeremiah 9:19 עָזַ֣בְנוּ 'a.Zav.nu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by us

    For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

  11. Jeremiah 12:7 עָזַ֙בְתִּי֙ 'a.Zav.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

  12. Jeremiah 14:5 וְעָז֑וֹב ve.'a.Zov · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass.

  13. Jeremiah 16:11 עָזְב֨וּ 'a.ze.Vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

  14. Jeremiah 16:11 עָזָ֔בוּ 'a.Za.vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

  15. Jeremiah 17:11 יַעַזְבֶ֔נּוּ ya.'az.Ve.nu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    As the partridge that sitteth on eggs which she hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

  16. Jeremiah 17:13 עֹזְבֶ֖יךָ 'o.ze.Vei.kha · An -ing word: simple action

    O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be put to shame. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.

  17. Jeremiah 17:13 עָזְב֛וּ 'a.ze.Vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be put to shame. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.

  18. Jeremiah 18:14 הֲיַעֲזֹ֥ב ha.ya.'a.Zo · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

  19. Jeremiah 19:4 עֲזָבֻ֗נִי 'a.za.Vu.ni · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

  20. Jeremiah 22:9 עָֽזְב֔וּ 'a.ze.Vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

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