Word meanings
Senses and individuals
- to serve: minister H5647H · a Meaning of 157
- to serve H5647G 97
- to serve: labour H5647I · a Meaning of 32
- to serve: burden H5647J · a Meaning of 2
Strong's dictionary
a primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.; [idiom] be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, [phrase] husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Every occurrence
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2 Samuel 9:10 וְעָבַ֣דְתָּ ve.'a.Vad.ta · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you
And thou shalt till the land for him, thou, and thy sons, and thy servants; and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
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2 Samuel 10:19 וַיַּֽעַבְד֑וּם vai.ya.'av.Dum · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.
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2 Samuel 15:8 וְעָבַדְתִּ֖י ve.'a.vad.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me
For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Jehovah.
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2 Samuel 16:19 אֶֽעֱבֹ֔ד 'e.'e.Vod · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.
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2 Samuel 16:19 עָבַ֙דְתִּי֙ 'a.Vad.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me
And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.
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2 Samuel 22:44 יַעַבְדֻֽנִי׃ ya.'av.Du.ni · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.