H0009 H0009
A lost thing; something that has gone astray and awaits recovery by its rightful owner.
This noun refers specifically to property that has been lost and may be found by another. It appears in the legal codes of Exodus and Leviticus governing the obligation to return found items, and in Deuteronomy's detailed lost-and-found legislation. The word is built on the root aleph-bet-dalet (to perish, be lost) with a feminine nominal pattern indicating the object itself. Ancient Israelite law took the recovery and return of lost property seriously — finding something did not make it yours, and concealing a found item constituted a kind of theft requiring restitution.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A lost item or piece of property that someone has misplaced or that has strayed away. In Exod 22:9, it appears in a list of disputed property cases where one party claims another is holding their lost goods. Lev 6:3-4 addresses the moral obligation when someone finds a lost thing (aveidah) and lies about it — restitution plus a fifth is required. Deut 22:3 broadens the duty to return any lost item belonging to a fellow Israelite. The multilingual glosses — Spanish 'cosa perdida,' French 'lost chose,' German 'lost Sache' — all center on the concrete notion of misplaced property awaiting rightful restoration. 4×
AR["-الضَّالَّةَ", "ضَالَّةً", "فَقْدِ", "مَفقودٍ"]·ben["হারানো-জিনিস", "হারানো-বস্তু", "হারানোর"]·DE["der-lost-Sache", "ein-lost-Sache", "lost-Sache-von", "lost-thing"]·EN["a-lost-thing", "lost-thing", "lost-thing-of", "the-lost-thing"]·FR["le-lost-chose", "lost-chose-de", "perdu-chose", "un-lost-chose"]·heb["אבדה", "אבדת", "ה-אבדה"]·HI["खोई-हुई-वस्तु", "खोयी-हुई-वस्तु"]·ID["barang-hilang", "kehilangan"]·IT["il-lost-cosa", "lost-cosa", "lost-cosa-di", "un-lost-cosa"]·jav["barang-ical", "barang-ingkang-ical,"]·KO["그-잃어버린-것을", "잃어버린-것", "잃어버린-것을", "잃은-것"]·PT["a-coisa-perdida", "coisa-perdida", "coisa-perdida-de"]·RU["потерей", "потерю"]·ES["cosa-perdida-de", "la-pérdida", "pérdida"]·SW["kilichopotea"]·TR["-kayıp-eşyayı", "kaybına", "kayıp", "kayıp-eşya"]·urd["گمشدگی", "گمشدہ", "گمشدہ-چیز"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אֲבֵדָה n.f. a lost thing—abs. except Dt 22:3 cstr. אֲבֵדַת—Ex 22:8; with מָצָא Lv 5:22, 23; with אָבַד + מָצָא Dt 22:3;—(אבדה Pr 27:20 Kt cf. אֲבַדּוֹ infr.)