עָזַב
ʻâzab · aw-zab'
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, [idiom] surely.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to cut, to sustain › the house, what is within
To see and know that works to cut, to sustain of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָזַב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
215 occurrences · 215 OT · 0 NT · 171 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- forsake13 · 14%
- left8 · 9%
- because they have forsaken7 · 8%
- and left5 · 5%
- forsaken5 · 5%
- leave5 · 5%
- have forsaken4 · 4%
- hath forsaken4 · 4%
- i will not leave4 · 4%
- and forsook4 · 4%
- thee, nor forsake3 · 3%
- and they left3 · 3%
- and forsake3 · 3%
- shall be forsaken2 · 2%
- they have forsaken2 · 2%
- that he left2 · 2%
- and forsaketh2 · 2%
- because they had forsaken2 · 2%
- but he forsook2 · 2%
- because they forsook2 · 2%
- because we have forsaken2 · 2%
- faileth2 · 2%
- and they forsook2 · 2%
- thou shalt leave2 · 2%
- and he left2 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.