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/
• IPA^(key): /(ʔ)a.vaˈdon/

Noun

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

1. destruction, devastation, ruin, doom

   כִּי אֵשׁ הִיא עַד־אֲבַדֹּון תֹּאכֵל וּֽבְכָל־תְּבוּאָתִי תְשָׁרֵֽשׁ׃

   For it is a fire that will consume until devastation and will uproot all my produce. - Job 31:12

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