Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H5656
עֲבֹדָה
a.vo.dah · “service”
Used 145 times across 15 books
Definition
: service[as_servant/slave]
1) labour, service
1a) labour, work
1b) labour (of servant or slave)
1c) labour, service (of captives or subjects)
1d) service (of God)
1) labour, service
1a) labour, work
1b) labour (of servant or slave)
1c) labour, service (of captives or subjects)
1d) service (of God)
Where it appears
Genesis2
Exodus23
Leviticus7
Numbers50
Deuteronomy1
Joshua1
1 Kings1
1 Chronicles30
2 Chronicles15
Ezra1
Nehemiah4
Psalms2
Isaiah4
Lamentations1
Ezekiel3
In the text
Genesis 29:27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.Genesis 30:26Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.Exodus 1:14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.Exodus 5:9Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.Exodus 5:11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.Exodus 6:6Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:Exodus 6:9And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.Exodus 12:25And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.Exodus 12:26And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org · CC BY 4.0 · Verse text KJV