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
-
Exodus 14:5 מֵעָבְדֵֽנוּ׃ me.'a.ve.De.nu · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
-
Exodus 14:12 וְנַֽעַבְדָ֣ה ve.na.'av.Dah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us
Is not this the word that we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
-
Exodus 14:12 עֲבֹ֣ד 'a.Vod · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
Is not this the word that we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
-
Exodus 20:5 תָעָבְדֵ֑ם֒ ta.'a.ve.Dem · An action: being caused, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
-
Exodus 20:9 תַּֽעֲבֹ֔ד֮ ta.'a.Vod · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;
-
Exodus 21:2 יַעֲבֹ֑ד ya.'a.Vod · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
-
Exodus 21:6 וַעֲבָד֖וֹ va.'a.va.Do · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
-
Exodus 23:24 תָֽעָבְדֵ֔ם ta.'a.ve.Dem · An action: being caused, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.
-
Exodus 23:25 וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֗ם va.'a.vad.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you
And ye shall serve Jehovah your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
-
Exodus 23:33 תַעֲבֹד֙ ta.'a.Vod · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
-
Exodus 34:21 תַּעֲבֹ֔ד ta.'a.Vod · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.