Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H5647: עָבַד (ʻâbad) Definition

Strong's number
H5647
Lemma
עָבַד
Transliteration
ʻâbad
Pronunciation
aw-bad'
Strong's definition
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc. [idiom] be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, [phrase] 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, a primitive root;

260 instances of the word עָבַד ʻâbad (H5647)


  • Jeremiah 30:9 - But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king whom I will raise up

  • Jeremiah 34:9 - go That every man should let his manservant That every man his maidservant being an Hebrew being an Hebrew free that none should serve himself of them to wit of a Jew his brother That every man

  • Jeremiah 34:10 - heard Now when all the princes and all the people which had entered into the covenant and let them go and every one should let his manservant and every one his maidservant free that none should serve heard and let them go

  • Jeremiah 34:14 - At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew which hath been sold unto thee and when he hath served thee six years let ye go free hearkened from thee but your fathers not unto me neither inclined their ear

  • Jeremiah 35:15 - I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets rising up early I have sent them saying Return ye now every man way from his evil and amend your doings not after gods other to serve them and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers but ye have not inclined your ear nor hearkened

  • Jeremiah 40:9 - sware And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan saying Fear and serve the Chaldeans dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon and it shall be well

  • Jeremiah 44:3 - Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger to burn incense and to serve gods other whom they knew not neither they ye nor your fathers

  • Job 21:15 - What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what profit should we have if we pray

  • Job 36:11 - If they obey and serve him they shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures

  • Job 39:9 - be willing Will the unicorn to serve thee or abide by thy crib

  • Joshua 16:10 - And they drave not out but the Canaanites dwell in Gezer dwell but the Canaanites among the Ephraimites unto this day under tribute and serve

  • Joshua 22:5 - and to keep But take diligent to do his commandments and the law charged which Moses the servant of the LORD you to love of the LORD your God in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul

  • Joshua 22:27 - But that it may be a witness between us and you and our generations after us that we might do the service in the LORD before him with our burnt offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings may not say that your children in time to come that your children Ye have no part in the LORD

  • Joshua 23:7 - That ye come not among these nations these that remain of the name of their gods among you neither make mention nor cause to swear by them neither serve them nor bow

  • Joshua 23:16 - When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD gods which he commanded you and have gone and served gods other and bowed be kindled yourselves to them then shall the anger of the LORD against you and ye shall perish quickly land from off the good which he hath given

  • Joshua 24:2 - Thus saith And Joshua unto all the people Thus saith the LORD God of Israel on the other side of the flood dwelt Your fathers in old time even Terah Your fathers of Abraham Your fathers of Nachor and they served God other

  • Joshua 24:14 - Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in truth and put away the gods and serve which your fathers on the other side of the flood and in Egypt and serve the LORD

  • Joshua 24:15 - whom served the LORD choose you this day unto you served or the gods served which your fathers that were on the other side of the flood or the gods of the Amorites ye dwell in whose land but as for me and my house served the LORD

  • Joshua 24:16 - answered And the people and said God forbid that we should forsake the LORD to serve gods other

  • Joshua 24:18 - drave out And the LORD us all the people even the Amorites which dwelt in the land from before therefore will we also serve And the LORD for he is our God