H5647G–עָבַד–a.vad

Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

יַעֲבֹ֖ד ya.'a.Vod “it will serve”

Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.

תַעַבְד֖וּ ta.'av.Du “you will serve”

Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?

עִבְד֥וּ 'iv.Du “serve”

For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the animals of the field also.

לַעֲבֹ֛ד (עֲבֹ֛ד) 'a.Vod “serve”וַעֲבָדֻ֑הוּ (עֲבָדֻ֑) 'a.va.Du. “they will serve”

It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;

יַעַבְדוּ־ ya.'av.du- “they will work”

that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [supplied: to wit], of a Jew his brother.

עֲבָד־ 'a.vod- “to work”

All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his man-servant, and everyone his maid-servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

עֲבָד־ 'a.vod- “to work”

At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.

וַעֲבָֽדְךָ֙ (עֲבָֽדְ) 'a.va.de. “he will serve”

Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, Don't be afraid to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

מֵעֲב֣וֹד (עֲב֣וֹד) 'a.Vod “serving”וְעִבְד֛וּ (עִבְד֛וּ) 'iv.Du “serve”

As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go you, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name shall you no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.

עֲבֹ֔דוּ 'a.Vo.du “serve”

The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.

הָעֹבְדִ֥ים (עֹבְדִ֥ים) 'oe.Dim “[who] labored”

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, And Israel served to get a wife, And for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

וַיַּעֲבֹ֤ד (יַּעֲבֹ֤ד) i.ya.'a.Vod “he served”

They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Hosts, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

הָעֹבֵ֥ד (עֹבֵ֥ד) 'o.Ved “serves”