עֲבֹדָה

a.vo.dah · service: ministry

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

English

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.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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