Abolish
Bible Usage:
- Bible Reference: Isaiah 2:18
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2498 Used 1 time
ABOL'ISH, verb transitive [Latin abolco; from ab and oleo, olesco, to grow.]
1. To make void; to annul; to abrogate; applied chiefly and appropriately to established laws, contracts, rites, customs and institutions - as to abolish laws by a repeal, actual or virtual.
2. To destroy, or put an end to; as to abolish idols. Isaiah 2:18. To abolish death 2 Timothy 1:10. This sense is not common. To abolish posterity, in the translation of Pausanias, Lib. 3. Ca 6, is hardly allowable.
ABOL'ISHABLE, adjective That may be annulled, abrogated, or destroyed, as a law, rite, custom, etc.
ABOL'ISHED, participle passive annulled; repealed; abrogated, or destroyed.
ABOL'ISHER, noun One who abolishes.
ABOL'ISHING, participle present tense Making void; annulling; destroying.
ABOL'ISHMENT, noun The act of annulling; abrogation; destruction.
Bible Usage:
- Bible Reference: Isaiah 2:18
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2498 Used 1 time