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. Exodus 10:26 נַּעֲבֹד֙ na.'a.Vod · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve Jehovah our God; and we know not with what we must serve Jehovah, until we come thither.

  2. Exodus 12:31 עִבְד֥וּ 'iv.Du · A command to all of you: simple action

    And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as ye have said.

  3. Exodus 13:5 וְעָבַדְתָּ֛ ve.'a.vad.Ta · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

  4. 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?

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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,

  8. 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;

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Leviticus 25:39 תַעֲבֹ֥ד ta.'a.Vod · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-servant.

  16. Leviticus 25:40 יַעֲבֹ֥ד ya.'a.Vod · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee:

  17. Leviticus 25:46 תַּעֲבֹ֑דוּ ta.'a.Vo.du · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    And ye shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

  18. Numbers 3:7 לַעֲבֹ֖ד la.'a.Vod · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

  19. Numbers 3:8 לַעֲבֹ֖ד la.'a.Vod · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And they shall keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

  20. Numbers 4:23 לַעֲבֹ֥ד la.'a.Vod · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to wait upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

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