Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H5647
עָבַד
a.vad · “to serve”
Used 289 times across 25 books
Definition
: serve[someone]
1) to work, serve
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to labour, work, do work
1a2) to work for another, serve another by labour
1a3) to serve as subjects
1a4) to serve (God)
1a5) to serve (with Levitical service)
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be worked, be tilled (of land)
1b2) to make oneself a servant
1c) (Pual) to be worked
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to compel to labour or work, cause to labour, cause to serve
1d2) to cause to serve as subjects
1e) (Hophal) to be led or enticed to serve
1) to work, serve
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to labour, work, do work
1a2) to work for another, serve another by labour
1a3) to serve as subjects
1a4) to serve (God)
1a5) to serve (with Levitical service)
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be worked, be tilled (of land)
1b2) to make oneself a servant
1c) (Pual) to be worked
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to compel to labour or work, cause to labour, cause to serve
1d2) to cause to serve as subjects
1e) (Hophal) to be led or enticed to serve
Where it appears
Genesis23
Exodus31
Leviticus3
Numbers21
Deuteronomy35
Joshua21
Judges17
1 Samuel13
2 Samuel6
1 Kings8
2 Kings18
1 Chronicles2
2 Chronicles12
Nehemiah1
Job3
Psalms8
Proverbs2
Ecclesiastes2
Isaiah9
Jeremiah36
Ezekiel11
Hosea1
Zephaniah1
Zechariah1
Malachi4
In the text
Genesis 2:5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.Genesis 2:15And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.Genesis 3:23Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.Genesis 4:2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.Genesis 4:12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.Genesis 14:4Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.Genesis 15:13And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;Genesis 15:14And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.Genesis 25:23And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.Genesis 27:29Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
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