owb (obe) [178]

Meaning

a.  From the same as 1 (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name).

b.  Probably a mumble, i.e. a water-skin (from its hollow sound); hence, a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)

Phonetics: owb

1.  Owb means "spirit (of the dead); necromancer; pit."

2.  The word usually represents the troubled spirit (or spirits) of the dead.  This meaning appears unquestionably in Isaiah 29:4, "And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit [owb;178], out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. "

3.  Its second meaning, "necromancer," refers to a professional who claims to summon forth such spirits when requested (or hired) to do so, Leviticus 19:31 (first mention), "Regard not them that have familiar spirits [owb;178], neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God. "

These mediums summoned their "guides" from a hole in the ground. Saul asked the medium (witch) of Endor, 1 Samuel 28:8, "And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit [owb; 178], and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee. "

4.  God forbade Israel to seek information by this means, which was so common among the pagans; Deuteronomy 18:10-11, "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits [owb;178], or a wizard, or a necromancer. "

Perhaps the pagan belief in manipulating one's basic relationship to a god (or gods) explains the relative silence of the Old Testament regarding life after death.  Yet God's people believed in life after death, from early times, example Genesis 37:35, "And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. " and Isaiah 14:15, "Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. "

5.  Necromancy was so contrary to God's commands that its practitioners were under the death penalty; Deuteronomy 13.

6.  Necromancy's unusual experiences do not prove that they truly had power to summon the dead.  For example, the medium of Endor could not snatch Samuel out of God's hands against His wishes.  But in this particular incident, it seems that God rebuked Saul's apostasy, either through a revived Samuel or through a vision of Samuel.  Mediums do not have power to summon the spirits of the dead, since this is reprehensible to God and contrary to His will.

Syn: 7307 (ruach)

Phonetics:

Abad (aw-bad') [6]

Meaning abad

Basically abad represents the disappearance of someone or something.

Parts of speech: Verb

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition [abad 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 [abad 6] Strong #: 3077 ‑ λύπη (loo'‑pay);

1.  In its strongest sense the word means "to die or ease to exist".

Leviticus 26:38 - "And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up."

2.  It means to bring to non-existence.

Numbers 33:52 - "And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land ofThen ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: your enemies shall eat you up."

3.  It means to go to ruin or to be ruined.

Exodus 10:7 - "And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?"

Numbers 21:29-30 - "And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowWoe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.  We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.est thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?"

4.  It means to succumb, focuses on the process rather than the conclusion.

Numbers 17:12-13 - "And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.  Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?"

5.  It means to be carried off to death or destruction by some means.

Deuteronomy 4:26 - "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed."

6.  It means to disappear but not be destroyed, to be lost.

Deuteronomy 22:3 - "In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself."

Jeremiah 50:6 - "My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place."

7.  It means to go astray, in the sense of wandering.
Deuteronomy 26:5 - "And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:"

8.  It means human qualities which are lessening or have lessened.
Deuteronomy 32:28 - "For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them."

Psalm 146:4 - "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish."

Summary

This word refers to the death of the righteousness or the wicked; to the downfall and dissolution of nations, to the desolation of countries, to wandering away of herbage and crops, to the fading away of strength, hope, wisdom , knowledge and wealth.