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. Exodus 39:32 עֲבֹדַ֕ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Thus was finished all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting: and the children of Israel did according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses; so did they.

  2. Exodus 39:40 עֲבֹדַ֥ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, the cords thereof, and the pins thereof, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

  3. Exodus 39:42 הָעֲבֹדָֽה׃ ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.

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