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)


  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2 Samuel 9:10 - shall till the land Thou therefore and thy sons and thy servants for him and thou shalt bring Thou therefore and thy sons in the fruits that thy master's bread shall eat but Mephibosheth Thou therefore and thy sons in the fruits that thy master's shall eat alway bread at my table Now Ziba had fifteen Thou therefore and thy sons and twenty and thy servants

  • 2 Samuel 10:19 - saw And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer that they were smitten before Israel they made peace Israel and served feared them So the Syrians to help the children of Ammon

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 4:19 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes of heaven and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars even all the host of heaven shouldest be driven to worship them and serve hath divided them which the LORD thy God unto all nations of heaven

  • Deuteronomy 4:28 - And there ye shall serve gods the work hands of men's wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell

  • Deuteronomy 5:9 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto 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

  • Deuteronomy 5:13 - Six days thou shalt labour and do all thy work

  • Deuteronomy 6:13 - the LORD thy God Thou shalt fear and serve by his name him and shalt swear

  • Deuteronomy 7:4 - For they will turn away thy son from following me that they may serve gods other be kindled so will the anger of the LORD against you and destroy thee suddenly

  • Deuteronomy 7:16 - And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD their gods shall deliver shall have no pity thee thine eye upon them neither shalt thou serve their gods for that will be a snare

  • Deuteronomy 8:19 - And it shall be if thou do at all And it shall be if thou do at all the LORD gods and walk after gods other and serve them and worship them I testify against you this day perish perish

  • Deuteronomy 10:12 - And now Israel the LORD thy God require of thee but to fear the LORD thy God in all his ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul

  • Deuteronomy 10:20 - the LORD thy God Thou shalt fear him shalt thou serve and to him shalt thou cleave by his name and swear