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. Nehemiah 9:35 עֲבָד֑וּךָ 'a.va.Du.kha · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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