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H5647Gעָבַדa.vad

to servePart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 18
  2. 9
  3. 3
  4. 1
  5. 8
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. 6
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 13
  10. 1
  11. 3
  12. 2
  13. 1
  14. 3
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 1
  19. Psalms: 0
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 2
  24. 22
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 2
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 1
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. 1

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Other meanings of H5647

  • H5647Hעָבַדa.vadto serve: ministerH:VOccurrences: 157
  • H5647Iעָבַדa.vadto serve: labourH:VOccurrences: 32
  • H5647Jעָבַדa.vadto serve: burdenH:VOccurrences: 2

97 occurrences in 88 verses

With their references and text in World English Bible.

  1. Genesis 14:4

    Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.

    עָבְד֖וּ 'a.ve.Du “they had served”

  2. Genesis 15:13

    He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

    וַעֲבָד֖וּם (עֲבָד֖וּ) 'a.va.Du “they will serve”

  3. Genesis 15:14

    I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance.

    יַעֲבֹ֖דוּ ya.'a.Vo.du “they will serve”

  4. Genesis 25:23

    Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.

    יַעֲבֹ֥ד ya.'a.Vod “it will serve”

  5. Genesis 27:29

    Let peoples serve you, Nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, Blessed be everyone who blesses you."

    יַֽעַבְד֣וּךָ (יַֽעַבְד֣וּ) ya.'av.Du. “may they serve”

  6. Genesis 27:40

    By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, That you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."

    תַּעֲבֹ֑ד ta.'a.Vod “you will serve”

  7. Genesis 29:15

    Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

    וַעֲבַדְתַּ֖נִי (עֲבַדְתַּ֖) 'a.vad.Ta. “you will serve”

  8. Genesis 29:18

    Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

    אֶֽעֱבָדְךָ֙ (אֶֽעֱבָדְ) 'e.'e.va.de. “I will serve”

  9. Genesis 29:20

    Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

    וַיַּעֲבֹ֧ד (יַּעֲבֹ֧ד) i.ya.'a.Vod “he served”

  10. Genesis 29:25

    It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

    עָבַ֣דְתִּי 'a.Vad.ti “have I served”

  11. Genesis 29:27

    Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

    תַּעֲבֹ֣ד ta.'a.Vod “you will serve”

  12. Genesis 29:30

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

    וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ד (יַּעֲבֹ֣ד) i.ya.'a.Vod “he served”

  13. Genesis 30:26

    Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service with which I have served you."

    עָבַ֧דְתִּי 'a.Vad.ti “I have served”עֲבַדְתִּֽיךָ׃ (עֲבַדְתִּֽי) 'a.vad.Ti. “I have served”

  14. Genesis 30:29

    He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me.

    עֲבַדְתִּ֑יךָ (עֲבַדְתִּ֑י) 'a.vad.Ti. “I have served”

  15. Genesis 31:6

    You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

    עָבַ֖דְתִּי 'a.Vad.ti “I have served”

  16. Genesis 31:41

    These twenty years have I been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

    עֲבַדְתִּ֜יךָ (עֲבַדְתִּ֜י) 'a.vad.Ti. “I served”

  17. Genesis 49:15

    He saw a resting-place, that it was good, The land, that it was pleasant; He bows his shoulder to the burden, And becomes a servant doing forced labor.

    עֹבֵֽד׃ 'o.Ved “laboring”

  18. Exodus 1:13

    The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

    וַיַּעֲבִ֧דוּ (יַּעֲבִ֧דוּ) i.ya.'a.Vi.du “they compelled to labor”

  19. Exodus 1:14

    and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

    עָבְד֥וּ 'a.ve.Du “they labored”

  20. Exodus 5:18

    Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!"

    עִבְד֔וּ 'iv.Du “work”

  21. Exodus 6:5

    Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.

    מַעֲבִדִ֣ים ma.'a.vi.Dim “[are] compelling to labor”

  22. Exodus 14:5

    It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

    מֵעָבְדֵֽנוּ׃ (עָבְדֵֽ) 'a.ve.De. “serving”

  23. Exodus 14:12

    Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

    וְנַֽעַבְדָ֣ה (נַֽעַבְדָ֣ה) na.'av.Dah “let us serve”עֲבֹ֣ד 'a.Vod “serving”

  24. Exodus 21:2

    If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

    יַעֲבֹ֑ד ya.'a.Vod “he will serve”

  25. Exodus 21:6

    then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

    וַעֲבָד֖וֹ (עֲבָד֖) 'a.va.D “he will serve”