עָזַב H5800
- Home gloss
- forsake
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- leave
- Note
- With a person as object the sense is abandon (Deut 31:6, 8; Ps 22:2, "why have you forsaken me?"; Prov 2:17); Ruth 2:11, "you forsook your father and your mother." The collocation with persons decides (3); "leave" with things is a departure, noted
- Rulings
- 2, 3
Occurrences (1)
Genesis 2
- 2:24 Thus a man forsakes his father and his mother and clings to his woman, and they become one flesh.