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,
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Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Every occurrence
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Ecclesiastes 5:9 נֶעֱבָֽד׃ ne.'e.Vad · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
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Ecclesiastes 5:12 הָעֹבֵ֔ד ha.'o.Ved · An -ing word: simple action
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
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