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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. Numbers 7:8 עֲבֹ֣דָתָ֔ם 'a.Vo.da.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

  2. Numbers 7:9 עֲבֹדַ֤ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged unto them; they bare it upon their shoulders.

  3. Numbers 8:11 עֲבֹדַ֥ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Jehovah for a wave-offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Jehovah.

  4. Numbers 8:19 עֲבֹדַ֤ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.

  5. Numbers 8:22 עֲבֹֽדָתָם֙ 'a.vo.da.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

  6. Numbers 8:24 בַּעֲבֹדַ֖ת ba.'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    This is that which belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting:

  7. Numbers 8:25 הָעֲבֹדָ֑ה ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more,

  8. Numbers 8:26 וַעֲבֹדָ֖ה va.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.

  9. Numbers 16:9 עֲבֹדַת֙ 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them;

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

    And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

  11. Numbers 18:6 עֲבֹדַ֖ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given unto Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

  12. Numbers 18:7 עֲבֹדַ֣ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and ye shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

  13. Numbers 18:21 עֲבֹֽדָתָם֙ 'a.vo.da.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And unto the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.

  14. Numbers 18:21 עֲבֹדַ֖ת 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And unto the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.

  15. Numbers 18:23 עֲבֹדַת֙ 'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

  16. Numbers 18:31 עֲבֹֽדַתְכֶ֖ם 'a.vo.dat.Khem · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

  17. Numbers 28:18 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    In the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work;

  18. Numbers 28:25 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.

  19. Numbers 28:26 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah in your feast of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work;

  20. Numbers 29:1 עֲבֹדָ֖ה 'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets unto you.

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