Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H5647

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Original: עבד

Transliteration: abad (‛âbad)

Phonetic: aw-bad'

BDB Definition:

to work, serve
1. (Qal)
  1. to labour, work, do work
  2. to work for another, serve another by labour
  3. to serve as subjects
  4. to serve (God)
  5. to serve (with Levitical service)
2. (Niphal)
  1. to be worked, be tilled (of land)
  2. to make oneself a servant
3. (Pual) to be worked
4. (Hiphil)
  1. to compel to labour or work, cause to labour, cause to serve
  2. to cause to serve as subjects
5. (Hophal) to be led or enticed to serve

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 1553

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: A primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.: - X be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, + husbandman, keep, labour (-ing man), bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve (-ing, self), (be, become) servant (-s), do (use) service, till (-er), transgress [from margin], (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (291x)

A Work (1x)

Against Me: For If Thou Serve (1x)

All His Servants (1x)

All That Might Do Service (1x)

And All The Worshippers (1x)

And Also Served (1x)

And Became A Servant (1x)

And Became His Servants (1x)

And Bring To Pass (1x)

And Dress (1x)

And Have Served (2x)

And He Shall Serve (1x)

And Him That Serveth (1x)

And Let Us Serve (1x)

And Serve (25x)

And Served (24x)

And Shall Do (2x)

And Shall Serve (1x)

And Shalt Serve (1x)

And There Shall Ye Serve (1x)

And There Shalt Thou Serve (1x)

And There Thou Shalt Serve (1x)

And There Ye Shall Serve (1x)

And They Served (2x)

And They Shall Serve (1x)

And They Shall Till (1x)

And They That Serve (1x)

And To Serve (1x)

And We Will Serve (2x)

And Whom They Have Served (1x)

And Wilt Serve (1x)

And Ye Shall Serve (3x)

As I Have Served (1x)

As They Have Been (1x)

Be All They That Serve (1x)

Because Thou Servedst (1x)

Between Him That Serveth (1x)

But Serve (1x)

But The Worshippers (1x)

But They Shall Serve (1x)

But Thou Hast Made Me To Serve (1x)

Caused (1x)

For All The Worshippers (1x)

For He Served (1x)

For Them: So Shall They Serve (1x)

For They Have Not Served (1x)

For They Served (1x)

For Us To Serve (1x)

For Why Should We Serve (1x)

From Serving (1x)

He Shall Serve (1x)

He That Tilleth (2x)

Him Also To Serve (1x)

Him Shalt Thou Serve (1x)

Him, And To Serve (1x)

I Have Not Caused Thee To Serve (1x)

I Have Served (2x)

I Served Thee (1x)

I Will Not Transgress (1x)

I Will Serve (1x)

In Serving (1x)

In To Do (1x)

Is Served (1x)

Keep In Bondage (1x)

Made (1x)

Me, And Served (3x)

Me, That They May Serve (1x)

Moreover They That Work (1x)

Nay; But We Will Serve (1x)

Neither Serve (1x)

Nor Serve (1x)

Not Shall Serve (1x)

Not Theirs, And Shall Serve (1x)

Not To Serve (1x)

Not Unto Them; Serve (1x)

Not With What We Must Serve (1x)

Of A Labouring Man (1x)

Of All That Might Do Service (1x)

Of Bondservice (1x)

Of Them, That They May Be To Do (1x)

Of Those That Served (1x)

Serve (12x)

Served (11x)

Service (1x)

Shall Be Tilled (1x)

Shall Do (1x)

Shall No More Serve (1x)

Shall Serve (12x)

Shall Till (1x)

Shalt Thou Labour (1x)

Shouldest Thou Therefore Serve (1x)

So Shall Ye Serve (1x)

That Ear (1x)

That He Had Served (1x)

That He May Serve (1x)

That None Should Serve (2x)

That Serveth (1x)

That They May Execute (1x)

That They May Serve (8x)

100

That Thou Shalt Keep (1x)

101

That We May Serve (1x)

102

That We Should Serve (3x)

103

That Will Not Serve (2x)

104

That Ye Be Not Servants (1x)

105

The Worshippers (1x)

106

Thee; And I Will Cause Thee To Serve (1x)

107

Them, And Serve (1x)

108

Them, And Served (3x)

109

Then I Will Serve (1x)

110

Therefore Shalt Thou Serve (1x)

111

They Shall Be Your Bondmen (1x)

112

Thou Shalt Do No Work (1x)

113

Thou Shalt Labour (1x)

114

Thou Shalt Work (1x)

115

Thou Tillest (1x)

116

Thyself To Them, Nor Serve (1x)

117

Thyself Unto Them, Nor Serve (1x)

118

To Do (7x)

119

To Do The Service (1x)

120

To Dress (1x)

121

To Himself To Do (1x)

122

To Serve (21x)

123

To Set (1x)

124

To Their Servants (1x)

125

To Till (2x)

126

Unto Him, And To Serve (1x)

127

Unto Me? Did Not I Serve (1x)

128

Unto The Worshippers (1x)

129

Unto Thee, And Serve (1x)

130

Unto Thee, And They Shall Serve (1x)

131

Unto Thee; And When He Hath Served (1x)

132

Unto Thee; Thou Shalt Not Compel (1x)

133

Unto Them That Serve (1x)

134

Unto You, And Ye Shall Be Tilled (1x)

135

Upon Them: Neither Shalt Thou Serve (1x)

136

Upon Us, And We Will Serve (1x)

137

Us, That We Might Do (1x)

138

Was A Tiller (1x)

139

We Will Serve (1x)

140

Wherein They Made Them Serve (1x)

141

Wherein Thou Wast Made To Serve (1x)

142

Wherewith He Served (1x)

143

Which Hath Not Been Wrought With (1x)

144

Which I Have Done (1x)

145

Which Is Neither Eared (1x)

146

Which They Serve (1x)

147

Which Thou Shalt Serve (1x)

148

Which Will Not Serve (1x)

149

Whom I Have Served (1x)

150

Whom Should I Serve (1x)

151

Whom They Shall Serve (1x)

152

Will We Also Serve (1x)

153

Will We Serve (1x)

154

With Us, And We Will Serve (1x)

155

Work (1x)

156

Ye Shall Not Serve (2x)

157

Ye Shall Serve (1x)

158

Ye Will Serve (1x)

159

Ye, Serve (2x)

160

Yourselves To Them, Nor Serve (1x)

Occurrences of "And Served"

Genesis 29:30

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

Deuteronomy 17:3

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

Deuteronomy 29:26

For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:(h)

(i)

Joshua 23:16

When ye have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

Judges 2:11

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord , and served Baalim:

Judges 2:13

And they forsook the Lord , and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

Judges 3:6

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Judges 3:7

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord , and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

Judges 10:6

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord , and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord , and served not him.

1 Samuel 7:4

Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only.

2 Samuel 10:19

And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.

1 Kings 4:21

And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

1 Kings 16:31

And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.(e)

2 Kings 17:16

And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

2 Kings 17:33

They feared the Lord , and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.(f)

2 Kings 17:41

So these nations feared the Lord , and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

2 Kings 18:7

And the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.

2 Kings 21:3

For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

2 Kings 21:21

And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

2 Chronicles 24:18

And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

2 Chronicles 33:3

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.(a)

2 Chronicles 33:22

But he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

Jeremiah 22:9

Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H5647

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

Thayers Information

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H5647