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H5647Iעָבַדa.vad

to serve: labourPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 5
  2. 2
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. 5
  6. 1
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 1
  11. 1
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. Job: 0
  19. Psalms: 0
  20. 2
  21. 2
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 3
  24. 1
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 8
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  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. 1
  39. Malachi: 0

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Other meanings of H5647

  • H5647Gעָבַדa.vadto serveH:VOccurrences: 97
  • H5647Hעָבַדa.vadto serve: ministerH:VOccurrences: 157
  • H5647Jעָבַדa.vadto serve: burdenH:VOccurrences: 2

32 occurrences in 30 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Genesis 2:5

    No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground;

    לַֽעֲבֹ֖ד (עֲבֹ֖ד) 'a.Vod “till”

  2. Genesis 2:15

    And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

    לְעָבְדָ֖הּ (עָבְדָ֖) 'a.ve.Da “till”

  3. Genesis 3:23

    Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

    לַֽעֲבֹד֙ (עֲבֹד֙) 'a.Vod “till”

  4. Genesis 4:2

    And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

    עֹבֵ֥ד 'o.Ved “a tiller of”

  5. Genesis 4:12

    When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.'

    תַֽעֲבֹד֙ ta.'a.Vod “you will till”

  6. Exodus 20:9

    Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

    תַּֽעֲבֹ֔ד֮ ta.'a.Vod “you will labor”

  7. Exodus 34:21

    Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

    תַּעֲבֹ֔ד ta.'a.Vod “you will labor”

  8. Deuteronomy 5:13

    Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

    תַּֽעֲבֹ֔ד֮ ta.'a.Vod “you will labor”

  9. Deuteronomy 15:19

    All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock.

    תַעֲבֹד֙ ta.'a.Vod “you will labor”

  10. Deuteronomy 21:3

    And it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke.

    עֻבַּד֙ 'u.Bad “it has been worked”

  11. Deuteronomy 21:4

    And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which may neither be plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

    יֵעָבֵ֥ד ye.'a.Ved “it is tilled”

  12. Deuteronomy 28:39

    Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.

    וְעָבָ֑דְתָּ (עָבָ֑דְתָּ) 'a.Va.de.ta “you will labor”

  13. Joshua 16:10

    And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in the midst of Ephraim, unto this day, and became servants to do taskwork.

    עֹבֵֽד׃ 'o.Ved “laboring”

  14. 2 Samuel 9:10

    And thou shalt till the land for him, thou, and thy sons, and thy servants; and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread continually at my table.' Now Ziba had fifteen

    וְעָבַ֣דְתָּ (עָבַ֣דְתָּ) 'a.Vad.ta “you will work”

  15. 1 Kings 9:21

    even their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants, unto this day.

    עֹבֵ֔ד 'o.Ved “laboring”

  16. Proverbs 12:11

    He that tilleth his ground shall have plenty of bread; but he that followeth after vain things is void of understanding.

    עֹבֵ֣ד 'o.Ved “[one who] works”

  17. Proverbs 28:19

    He that tilleth his ground shall have plenty of bread; but he that followeth after vain things shall have poverty enough.

    עֹבֵ֣ד 'o.Ved “[one who] tills”

  18. Ecclesiastes 5:8

    But the profit of a land every way is a king that maketh himself servant to the field.

    נֶעֱבָֽד׃ ne.'e.Vad “he has been served”

  19. Ecclesiastes 5:11

    Sweet is the sleep of a labouring man, whether he eat little or much; but the satiety of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

    הָעֹבֵ֔ד (עֹבֵ֔ד) 'o.Ved “laborer”

  20. Isaiah 19:9

    Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.

    עֹבְדֵ֥י 'oe.Dei “workers of”

  21. Isaiah 28:21

    For the LORD will rise up as in mount Perazim, He will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that He may do His work, strange is His work, and bring to pass His act, strange is His act.

    וְלַֽעֲבֹד֙ (עֲבֹד֙) 'a.Vod “work”

  22. Isaiah 30:24

    The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

    עֹֽבְדֵי֙ 'oe.Dei “[which] work”

  23. Jeremiah 27:11

    But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that nation will I let remain in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.'

    וַֽעֲבָדָ֖הּ (עֲבָדָ֖) 'a.va.Da “it will work”

  24. Ezekiel 29:18

    'Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it;

    הֶעֱבִ֨יד he.'e.Vid “he made to labor”עָבַ֥ד 'a.Vad “he had labored”

  25. Ezekiel 29:20

    I have given him the land of Egypt as his hire for which he served, because they wrought for Me, saith the Lord GOD.

    עָ֣בַד 'A.vad “he served”