עָזַב ʻâzab

Meaning

to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.

In the King James Version: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, [idiom] surely.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Psalms 27:10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
• Psalms 37:8 Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it can only bring harm.
• Psalms 37:25 I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
• Psalms 37:28 For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
• Psalms 37:33 the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.
• Psalms 38:10 My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
• Psalms 38:21 Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
• Psalms 40:12 For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
• Psalms 49:10 For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.
• Psalms 71:9 Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
• Psalms 71:11 saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
• Psalms 71:18 Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
• Psalms 89:30 If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,
• Psalms 94:14 For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
• Psalms 119:8 I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.
• Psalms 119:53 Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.
• Psalms 119:87 They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken Your precepts.
• Proverbs 2:13 from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
• Proverbs 2:17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
• Proverbs 3:3 Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
• Proverbs 4:2 For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive.
• Proverbs 4:6 Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.
• Proverbs 9:6 Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
• Proverbs 10:17 Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.
• Proverbs 15:10 Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.
• Proverbs 27:10 Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
• Proverbs 28:4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
• Proverbs 28:13 He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
• Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
• Isaiah 1:28 But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
• Isaiah 7:16 For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
• Isaiah 10:3 What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
• Isaiah 10:14 My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
• Isaiah 17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
• Isaiah 17:9 In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.
• Isaiah 18:6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.
• Isaiah 27:10 For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
• Isaiah 32:14 For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
• Isaiah 41:17 The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
• Isaiah 42:16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
• Isaiah 49:14 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
• Isaiah 54:6 For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
• Isaiah 54:7 “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
• Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
• Isaiah 58:2 For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
• Isaiah 60:15 Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.
• Isaiah 62:4 No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.
• Isaiah 62:12 And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
• Isaiah 65:11 But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
• Jeremiah 1:16 I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, and they have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
• Jeremiah 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
• Jeremiah 2:17 Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
• Jeremiah 2:19 Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
• Jeremiah 4:29 Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
• Jeremiah 5:7 “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
• Jeremiah 5:19 And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
• Jeremiah 9:2 If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
• Jeremiah 9:13 And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
• Jeremiah 9:19 For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
• Jeremiah 12:7 I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.