abaddown (ab-ad-done') [1]

Meaning abaddown
a.  Intensive from 6 ('âbad    ).

b.  Abstract meaning is "a perishing".

c.  Concrete meaning is Hades: destruction.

Parts of speech: Proper Name, location.

The noun abaddown occurs 6 times and means "the place of destruction". Job 26:6, "Sheol (the place of the dead) is naked before God, and Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes]. "

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition [abaddown 11] place of destruction, destruction, ruin, Abaddon

Greek Equivalent Word Strong #: 3 ‑ Ἀβαδδών (ab‑ad‑dohn');

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition [abaddown 6] perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed (Qal) perish, die, be exterminated perish, vanish (fig.) be lost, strayed (Piel) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.) cause to stray, lose (Hiphil) to destroy, put to death of divine judgment object name of kings (fig.) Greek Equivalent Words [abaddown 6] Strong #: 3077 ‑ λύπη (loo'‑pay);

Intensive Word Form

In grammar, an intensive word form is one which denotes stronger, more forceful, or more concentrated action relative to the root on which the intensive is built. Intensives are usually lexical formations, but there may be a regular process for forming intensives from a root. Intensive formations, for example, existed in Proto-Indo-European, and in many of the Semitic languages. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_word_form

Lexical Formation

Lexical (or word) formation relates to the different ways in which words are formed or how they change.

Here are the many ways in which this can happen:

• Compounding: words formed by combining two or more existing words.
• Affixation: words with latin or greek prefixes or suffixes combined with roots from these languages to give new words.
• Borrowing: words originating in a language other than Old English.
• Eponym: words formed from the name of a person often an inventor or discoverer.
• Acronym: words made from the initial letters of a longer phrase.
• Abbreviation: the shortened form of a word used as a word in its own right.
• Backformation: a word imagined incorrectly to be the 'root' of a longer word.
• Broadening: a word expanded from an original narrow meaning to a broader one.
• Narrowing: a general word which has retreated into a more specific meaning.
• Drift: a word which has changed its meaning altogether over time.
• Amelioration: a word with unpleasant connotations becomes milder.
• Pejoration: a word means something less pleasant.
• Blending: words formed from two words which lose or comine the ends where they're joined, to form a mixed hybrid word.
• Onomatopoeia: words created from scratch on an imitation of the sound made by the referent.
• Conversion: words that start as one word class but move to another.
• Eponym: a person or thing named after the person who discovered/ invented it.

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