עֲבֹדָה

a.vo.dah · service: ministry

Hebrew · Strong's H5656 · Noun · Sounds like: ab-o-daw' · 145 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • service: ministry H5656H · a Meaning of 87
  • service: work H5656I · a Meaning of 33
  • service H5656G 25

Strong's dictionary

or עֲבוֹדָה; from עָבַד; work of any kind; act, bondage, [phrase] bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, [idiom] wrought.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
עֲבֹדָה, and (Chr) עֲבוֹדָה 146 n.f. labour, service
1. labour, work
2. labour of servant or slave
3. labour, service of captives or subjects
4. service of God

Every occurrence

  1. Genesis 29:27 בַּעֲבֹדָה֙ ba.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

  2. Genesis 30:26 עֲבֹדָתִ֖י 'a.vo.da.Ti · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.

  3. Exodus 1:14 בַּעֲבֹדָ֣ה ba.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

  4. Exodus 1:14 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

  5. Exodus 1:14 עֲבֹ֣דָתָ֔ם 'a.Vo.da.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

  6. Exodus 2:23 הָעֲבֹדָ֖ה ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

  7. Exodus 2:23 הָעֲבֹדָֽה׃ ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

  8. Exodus 5:9 הָעֲבֹדָ֛ה ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard lying words.

  9. Exodus 5:11 מֵעֲבֹדַתְכֶ֖ם me.'a.vo.dat.Khem · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.

  10. Exodus 6:6 מֵעֲבֹדָתָ֑ם me.'a.vo.da.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:

  11. Exodus 6:9 וּמֵעֲבֹדָ֖ה u.me.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

  12. Exodus 12:25 הָעֲבֹדָ֥ה ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    And it shall come to pass, when ye are come to the land which Jehovah will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

  13. Exodus 12:26 הָעֲבֹדָ֥ה ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

  14. Exodus 13:5 הָעֲבֹדָ֥ה ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    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.

  15. Exodus 27:19 עֲבֹדָת֑וֹ a.vo.da.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    All the instruments of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

  16. Exodus 30:16 עֲבֹדַ֖ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And thou shalt take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

  17. Exodus 35:21 עֲבֹ֣דָת֔וֹ a.Vo.da.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and brought Jehovah's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all the service thereof, and for the holy garments.

  18. Exodus 35:24 הָעֲבֹדָ֖ה ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Jehovah's offering; and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.

  19. Exodus 36:1 עֲבֹדַ֣ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Bezalel and Oholiab shall work, and every wise-hearted man, in whom Jehovah hath put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Jehovah hath commanded.

  20. Exodus 36:3 עֲבֹדַ֥ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and they received of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, wherewith to make it. And they brought yet unto him freewill-offerings every morning.

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