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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. 2 Chronicles 29:35 עֲבוֹדַ֥ת a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And also the burnt-offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace-offerings, and with the drink-offerings for every burnt-offering. So the service of the house of Jehovah was set in order.

  2. 2 Chronicles 31:2 עֲבֹדָת֗וֹ a.vo.da.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt-offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Jehovah.

  3. 2 Chronicles 31:16 לַעֲב֣וֹדָתָ֔ם la.'a.Vo.da.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    besides them that were reckoned by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even every one that entered into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their courses;

  4. 2 Chronicles 31:21 בַּעֲבוֹדַ֣ת ba.'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

  5. 2 Chronicles 34:13 לַעֲבוֹדָ֖ה la.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all that did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

  6. 2 Chronicles 34:13 וַעֲבוֹדָ֑ה va.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all that did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

  7. 2 Chronicles 35:2 לַעֲבוֹדַ֖ת la.'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Jehovah.

  8. 2 Chronicles 35:10 הָעֲבוֹדָ֑ה ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.

  9. 2 Chronicles 35:15 עֲבֹֽדָתָ֔ם 'a.vo.da.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters were at every gate: they needed not to depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

  10. 2 Chronicles 35:16 עֲבוֹדַ֨ת a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    So all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of Jehovah, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

  11. Ezra 8:20 לַעֲבֹדַ֣ת la.'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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;

  15. 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.

  16. Psalms 104:14 לַעֲבֹדַ֣ת la.'a.vo.Dat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth,

  17. Psalms 104:23 וְֽלַעֲבֹ֖דָת֣וֹ ve.la.'a.Vo.da.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labor until the evening.

  18. Isaiah 14:3 הָעֲבֹדָ֥ה ha.'a.vo.Dah · A person, place or thing

    And it shall come to pass in the day that Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve,

  19. Isaiah 28:21 עֲבֹ֣דָת֔וֹ a.Vo.da.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

  20. Isaiah 28:21 עֲבֹדָתֽוֹ׃ a.vo.da.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

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