H5647 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)


  • Hosea 12:12 - fled And Jacob into the country of Syria served and Israel and for a wife and for a wife he kept

  • 1 Samuel 12:14 - If ye will fear of the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following of the LORD your God

  • 1 Samuel 12:20 - said And Samuel unto the people Fear not ye have done all this wickedness yet turn not aside from following the LORD but serve the LORD with all your heart

  • 1 Samuel 12:24 - Only fear the LORD and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things he hath done

  • Deuteronomy 12:30 - Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following by following that they be destroyed from before thee and that thou enquire not after their gods saying serve How did these nations not after their gods even so will I do likewise

  • Exodus 12:31 - And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said Rise up and get you forth from among my people both ye and the children of Israel serve the LORD as ye have said

  • Deuteronomy 13:2 - come to pass And the sign or the wonder whereof he spake unto thee saying after gods other which thou hast not known and let us serve

  • Deuteronomy 13:4 - after the LORD your God and fear his commandments him and keep his voice and obey and ye shall serve him and cleave

  • Exodus 13:5 - shall bring And it shall be when the LORD thee a land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee a land flowing with milk and honey that thou shalt keep this service in this month

  • Zechariah 13:5 - But he shall say I am no prophet I am an husbandman for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth

  • Deuteronomy 13:6 - entice If thy brother or thy son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom or thy friend which is as thine own soul thee secretly saying and serve gods other which thou hast not known thou nor thy fathers

  • Jeremiah 13:10 - people This evil which refuse to hear my words which walk in the imagination of their heart which walk after gods other to serve them and to worship them shall even be as this girdle which is good

  • Deuteronomy 13:13 - are gone out the children of Belial from among you and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city saying and serve gods other which ye have not known

  • Isaiah 14:3 - And it shall come to pass in the day shall give thee rest that the LORD from thy sorrow and from thy fear bondage and from the hard wherein thou wast made to serve

  • Genesis 14:4 - Twelve year they served Chedorlaomer and in the thirteenth Twelve year they rebelled

  • Exodus 14:5 - And it was told the king of Egypt fled against the people was turned and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants against the people and they said Why have we done go this that we have let Israel from serving

  • Exodus 14:12 - Is not this the word that we did tell the Egyptians saying Let us alone for us to serve the Egyptians For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness

  • 2 Samuel 15:8 - a vow vowed For thy servant while I abode at Geshur in Syria saying shall bring me again shall bring me again If the LORD indeed to Jerusalem then I will serve If the LORD

  • Deuteronomy 15:12 - be sold And if thy brother an Hebrew man an Hebrew man unto thee and serve thee six year year then in the seventh thou shalt let him go free

  • Genesis 15:13 - And he said unto Abram Know Know shall be a stranger that thy seed in a land that is not theirs and shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years

  • Genesis 15:14 - And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge and afterward shall they come out substance with great

  • Deuteronomy 15:18 - It shall not seem hard unto thee when thou sendest him away free a double from thee for he hath been worth hired servant to thee in serving thee six years shall bless and the LORD thy God thee in all that thou doest

  • Deuteronomy 15:19 - All the firstling that come of thy herd and of thy flock males thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God thou shalt do no work All the firstling of thy bullock nor shear All the firstling and of thy flock

  • Numbers 16:9 - Seemeth it but a small thing hath separated unto you that the God of Israel the congregation of Israel to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister

  • 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

  • Jeremiah 16:11 - Then shalt thou say have forsaken unto them Because your fathers me saith the LORD after gods other and have served them and have worshipped have forsaken my law me and have not kept

  • Jeremiah 16:13 - Therefore will I cast into a land into a land that ye know not neither ye nor your fathers and there shall ye serve gods other day and night where I will not shew you favour

  • 2 Samuel 16:19 - And again as I have served presence of his son as I have served presence in thy father's presence

  • 1 Kings 16:31 - And it came to pass as if it had been a light thing in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians and served Baal and worshipped

  • Deuteronomy 17:3 - and served gods other and worshipped them either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven which I have not commanded

  • Jeremiah 17:4 - And thou even thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest a fire not for ye have kindled in mine anger for ever which shall burn

  • 1 Samuel 17:9 - If he be able to fight against him and kill him then shall ye be our servants If he be able against him and kill him then shall ye be our servants and serve

  • 2 Kings 17:12 - For they served idols had said whereof the LORD unto them Ye shall not do this thing

  • 2 Kings 17:16 - And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God and made them molten images even two calves and made a grove and worshipped all the host of heaven and served Baal

  • 2 Kings 17:33 - the LORD their own gods and served after the manner of the nations whom they carried away

  • 2 Kings 17:35 - had made With whom the LORD a covenant and charged them saying Ye shall not fear gods other nor bow yourselves to them nor serve them nor sacrifice

  • 2 Kings 17:41 - So these nations the LORD their graven images and served and their children's and their children's and their children's as did their fathers as did they unto this day

  • Numbers 18:6 - And I behold I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel as a gift to you they are given for the LORD to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation

  • 2 Kings 18:7 - And the LORD whithersoever he went forth was with him and he prospered and he rebelled against the king of Assyria and served

  • Numbers 18:7 - Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar and within the vail and ye shall serve unto you as a service of gift I have given your priest's office and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death

  • Numbers 18:21 - the children of Levi And behold I have given all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance for even the service which they serve even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation

  • Numbers 18:23 - shall do But the Levites the service of the tabernacle of the congregation and they shall bear their iniquity it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance

  • Psalms 18:43 - Thou hast delivered me from the strivings a people and thou hast made me the head of the heathen a people whom I have not known shall serve

  • Isaiah 19:9 - shall be confounded Moreover they that work flax in fine and they that weave networks

  • 1 Chronicles 19:19 - saw And when the servants of Hadarezer that they were put to the worse before Israel they made peace with David and became his servants neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon

  • Isaiah 19:21 - shall be known And the LORD and the Egyptians shall be known and the Egyptians And the LORD in that day and shall do sacrifice and oblation yea they shall vow a vow And the LORD and perform

  • Isaiah 19:23 - In that day shall there be a highway and the Egyptian and the Assyrian shall come and the Assyrian and the Egyptian and the Egyptian and the Assyrian shall serve and the Egyptian and the Assyrian

  • Exodus 20:5 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them for I the LORD thy God God am a jealous visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate

  • Exodus 20:9 - Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work

  • Deuteronomy 20:11 - of peace And it shall be if it make thee answer and open unto thee then it shall be that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee and they shall serve

  • Ezekiel 20:39 - As for you O house of Israel thus saith the Lord GOD ye every one and with your idols ye serve and hereafter also if ye will not hearken name ye my holy unto me but pollute no more with your gifts and with your idols

  • Ezekiel 20:40 - in the mountain For in mine holy in the mountain of the height of Israel saith the Lord GOD serve there shall all the house of Israel all of them in the land me there will I accept them and there will I require your offerings and the firstfruits of your oblations For in mine holy

  • Exodus 21:2 - If thou buy servant an Hebrew six years he shall serve and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing

  • Deuteronomy 21:3 - And it shall be that the city which is next unto the slain man shall take even the elders And it shall be that the city an heifer which hath not been wrought with and which hath not drawn in the yoke

  • 2 Kings 21:3 - again For he built up the high places had destroyed which Hezekiah his father and he reared up altars for Baal and made a grove and made Ahab king of Israel and worshipped all the host of heaven and served

  • Deuteronomy 21:4 - shall bring down And the elders of that city the heifer there in the valley unto a rough which is neither eared nor sown and shall strike off the heifer there in the valley

  • Exodus 21:6 - he shall also bring Then his master him unto the judges he shall also bring him to the door or unto the door post shall bore Then his master his ear through with an aul and he shall serve him for ever

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

  • 2 Kings 21:21 - walked in in all the way walked in that his father and served the idols and served that his father and worshipped

  • 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

  • Jeremiah 22:9 - Then they shall answer Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD gods and worshipped gods other and served

  • Jeremiah 22:13 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness and his chambers by by wrong that useth his neighbour's service without wages him not for his work by and giveth

  • 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

  • Psalms 22:30 - A seed shall serve him it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation

  • 2 Samuel 22:44 - Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings a people thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen a people which I knew not shall serve

  • 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

  • Exodus 23:24 - Thou shalt not bow down to their gods nor serve them nor do after their works but thou shalt utterly but thou shalt utterly break down break down their images

  • Exodus 23:25 - And ye shall serve the LORD your God and he shall bless thy bread and thy water and I will take sickness from the midst

  • Exodus 23:33 - They shall not dwell in thy land lest they make thee sin against me for if thou serve their gods it will surely be a snare

  • 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

  • 2 Chronicles 24:18 - And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers and served groves and idols and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass

  • 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

  • Joshua 24:19 - said And Joshua unto the people Ye cannot serve the LORD God for he is an holy God he is a jealous he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins

  • Joshua 24:20 - If ye forsake the LORD and serve gods strange then he will turn and do you hurt and consume you after that he hath done you good

  • Joshua 24:21 - said And the people unto Joshua the LORD Nay but we will serve

  • Joshua 24:22 - him And they said And Joshua unto the people We are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD to serve him And they said We are witnesses

  • Joshua 24:24 - said And the people unto Joshua The LORD our God will we serve and his voice will we obey

  • Joshua 24:31 - served And Israel of the LORD all the days Joshua all the days of the elders that overlived all the days Joshua and which had known all the works of the LORD that he had done And Israel

  • Jeremiah 25:6 - not after gods other to serve them and to worship them and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands and I will do you no hurt

  • Jeremiah 25:11 - And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment shall serve and these nations the king of Babylon seventy years

  • Jeremiah 25:14 - shall serve nations For many kings and great themselves of them also and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands

  • Genesis 25:23 - said And the LORD and two manner nations are in thy womb and two manner and the one people from thy bowels shall be separated and the one people and the one people shall be stronger and the elder shall serve the younger

  • 2 Kings 25:24 - sware And Gedaliah and said unto them Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon and it shall be well

  • 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

  • 1 Samuel 26:19 - hear Now therefore I pray thee let my lord the king the words of his servant If the LORD have stirred thee up against me let him accept an offering but if they be the children of men cursed be they before If the LORD for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance If the LORD saying serve gods other

  • Jeremiah 27:6 - And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant and the beasts of the field And now have I given him also to serve

  • Jeremiah 27:7 - shall serve And all nations and his son's and his son's and his son's come until the very time of his land shall serve And all nations and then many kings and great

  • Jeremiah 27:8 - And it shall come to pass that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar of the king of Babylon and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence will I punish And it shall come to pass that the nation saith the LORD until I have consumed them by his hand

  • Jeremiah 27:9 - Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets nor to your diviners nor to your dreamers nor to your enchanters nor to your sorcerers unto you saying unto you saying Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon

  • Jeremiah 27:11 - But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him those will I let remain still in their own land saith the LORD and serve it and dwell

  • Jeremiah 27:12 - also to Zedekiah king of Judah I spake according to all these words saying Bring your necks under the yoke king of Babylon and serve him and his people and live

  • Jeremiah 27:13 - Why will ye die thou and thy people by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence hath spoken as the LORD against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon

  • Jeremiah 27:14 - Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak that speak Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon a lie for they prophesy

  • Jeremiah 27:17 - Hearken not unto them serve the king of Babylon and live wherefore should this city be laid waste