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)


  • Leviticus 25:39 - that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor And if thy brother and be sold unto thee thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant

  • Leviticus 25:40 - But as an hired servant and as a sojourner thee unto the year of jubile he shall be with thee and shall serve

  • Leviticus 25:46 - And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession for ever they shall be your bondmen but over your brethren for your children of Israel one but over your brethren ye shall not rule with rigour

  • Malachi 3:14 - Ye have said It is vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 3:17 - And they shall be mine saith the LORD of hosts in that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare and I will spare them as a man his own son that serveth

  • Malachi 3:18 - Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked and him that serveth God and him that serveth

  • Nehemiah 9:35 - thee in their kingdom goodness and in thy great that thou gavest land them and in the large and fat that thou gavest before For they have not served them neither turned works they from their wicked

  • Numbers 3:7 - And they shall keep and the charge and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation to do the service of the tabernacle

  • Numbers 3:8 - And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation and the charge of the children of Israel to do the service of the tabernacle

  • Numbers 4:23 - old From thirty years and upward old until fifty years shalt thou number them all that enter in to perform the service to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation

  • Numbers 4:24 - This is the service of the families of the Gershonites to serve and for burdens

  • Numbers 4:26 - And the hangings of the court and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about and their cords and all the instruments of their service and all that is made for them so shall they serve

  • Numbers 4:30 - old From thirty years and upward old even unto fifty years shalt thou number them every one that entereth into the service to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation

  • Numbers 4:37 - These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation These were they that were numbered of Moses and Aaron according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses

  • Numbers 4:41 - These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation These are they that were numbered whom Moses and Aaron according to the commandment of the LORD

  • Numbers 4:47 - old From thirty years and upward old even unto fifty years every one that came to do and the service and the service and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation

  • Numbers 7:5 - Take it of them that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation and thou shalt give them unto the Levites to every man according the service

  • Numbers 8:11 - shall offer And Aaron the Levites for an offering before of the LORD of the children of Israel that they may execute the service of the LORD

  • Numbers 8:15 - And after go in that shall the Levites to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation and thou shalt cleanse them and offer them for an offering

  • Numbers 8:19 - And I have given the Levites And I have given to Aaron among the children from among among the children of Israel to do the service among the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation and to make an atonement among the children of Israel among the children of Israel that there be no plague come nigh among the children of Israel unto the sanctuary