עָבַד

a.vad · to serve: minister

Hebrew · Strong's H5647 · Verb · Sounds like: aw-bad' · 288 occurrences

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)
עָבַד 290 vb. work, serve
Qal
1. labour, work, do work
2. work for another, serve him by labour
3. serve as subjects
4. serve God
5. serve י׳ with Levitical service
Niph.
1. be tilled, of land
2. dub. cultivated field
Pu. worked
Hiph.
1. compel to labour as slaves
2. make to serve as subjects
3. cause to serve God
Hoph. be led or enticed to serve

Every occurrence

  1. Ezekiel 20:39 עֲבֹ֔דוּ 'a.Vo.du · A command to all of you: simple action

    As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Go ye, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me; but my holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.

  2. Ezekiel 20:40 יַעַבְדֻ֜נִי ya.'av.Du.ni · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

  3. Ezekiel 29:18 הֶעֱבִ֨יד he.'e.Vid · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.

  4. Ezekiel 29:18 עָבַ֥ד 'a.Vad · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.

  5. Ezekiel 29:20 עָ֣בַד 'A.vad · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  6. Ezekiel 34:27 הָעֹבְדִ֥ים ha.'oe.Dim · An -ing word: simple action

    And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those that made bondmen of them.

  7. Ezekiel 36:9 וְנֶעֱבַדְתֶּ֖ם ve.ne.'e.vad.Tem · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown;

  8. Ezekiel 36:34 תֵּֽעָבֵ֑ד te.'a.Ved · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.

  9. Ezekiel 48:18 לְעֹבְדֵ֖י le.'oe.Dei · An -ing word: simple action

    And the residue in the length, answerable unto the holy oblation, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable unto the holy oblation; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that labor in the city.

  10. Ezekiel 48:19 וְהָעֹבֵ֖ד ve.ha.'o.Ved · An -ing word: simple action

    And they that labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.

  11. Ezekiel 48:19 יַעַבְד֕וּהוּ ya.'av.Du.hu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And they that labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.

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