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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Hosea 12:12 וַיַּעֲבֹ֤ד vai.ya.'a.Vod · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.