עֶ֫בֶד

e.ved · servant/slave

Hebrew · Strong's H5650 · Noun · Sounds like: eh'-bed · 801 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

from עָבַד; a servant; [idiom] bondage, bondman, (bond-) servant, (man-) servant.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
עֶ֫בֶד 799 n.m. slave, servant
1. slave, servant of household
2. Subjects, of chief
3. Servants, worshippers of God
4. Servant of י׳, in a special sense
5. Israel as a people is servant of י׳
6. In polite address of equals or superiors the Hebrews used עַבְדְּךָ thy servant = 1 pers. sing., I
7. Phrases

Every occurrence

  1. Esther 1:3 וַעֲבָדָ֑יו va.'a.va.Dav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    in the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him;

  2. Esther 2:18 וַעֲבָדָ֔יו va.'a.va.Dav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the bounty of the king.

  3. Esther 3:2 עַבְדֵ֨י 'av.Dei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed down, and did reverence to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not down, nor did him reverence.

  4. Esther 3:3 עַבְדֵ֥י 'av.Dei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

  5. Esther 4:11 עַבְדֵ֣י 'av.Dei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

  6. Esther 5:11 וְעַבְדֵ֥י ve.'av.Dei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Haman recounted unto them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

  7. Esther 7:4 לַעֲבָדִ֨ים la.'a.va.Dim · A person, place or thing

    for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.

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