אבדון

Hebrejski

Etimologija

Koren
א־ב־ד‎ (ʾ-b-d)

Od the root א־ב־ד‎ (ʾ-b-d, “Forming words pertaining to loss”) +‎ ־ון‎ (-on, “A suffix marking places”).

Izgovor

• (Biblical Hebrew, Tiberian Hebrew) MFA^(ključ): /ʔăvadˈdoːn/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) MFA^(ključ): /(ʔ)a.vaˈdon/

Imenica

אֲבַדּוֹן (avadon)

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

• → Antički Grčki: Ἀβαδδών (Abaddṓn)
• → Arapski: اَبَادُون‎‎ (abādūn)

Reference

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979