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 36:5 הָֽעֲבֹדָה֙ ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    and they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Jehovah commanded to make.

  2. Exodus 38:21 עֲבֹדַת֙ 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

  3. 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.

  4. 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;

  5. 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.

  6. Leviticus 23:7 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.

  7. Leviticus 23:8 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

  8. Leviticus 23:21 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

  9. Leviticus 23:25 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    Ye shall do no servile work; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

  10. Leviticus 23:35 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    On the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.

  11. Leviticus 23:36 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: it is a solemn assembly; ye shall do no servile work.

  12. Leviticus 25:39 עֲבֹ֥דַת 'a.Vo.dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-servant.

  13. Numbers 3:7 עֲבֹדַ֥ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

  14. Numbers 3:8 עֲבֹדַ֥ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they shall keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

  15. Numbers 3:26 עֲבֹדָתֽוֹ׃ a.vo.da.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.

  16. Numbers 3:31 עֲבֹדָתֽוֹ׃ a.vo.da.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the screen, and all the service thereof.

  17. Numbers 3:36 עֲבֹדָתֽוֹ׃ a.vo.da.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the instruments thereof, and all the service thereof,

  18. Numbers 4:4 עֲבֹדַ֥ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, about the most holy things:

  19. Numbers 4:19 עֲבֹדָת֖וֹ a.vo.da.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;

  20. Numbers 4:23 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to wait upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

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