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. Nehemiah 3:5 בַּעֲבֹדַ֖ת ba.'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their lord.

  2. Nehemiah 5:18 הָעֲבֹדָ֖ה ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

  3. Nehemiah 10:32 לַעֲבֹדַ֖ת la.'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

  4. Nehemiah 10:37 עֲבֹדָתֵֽנוּ׃ 'a.vo.da.Te.nu · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

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