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)


  • Deuteronomy 28:64 - shall scatter And the LORD thee among all people even unto the other of the earth even unto the other of the earth and there thou shalt serve gods other have known which neither thou nor thy fathers even wood and stone

  • Deuteronomy 29:18 - Lest there should be among you man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God and serve our God of these nations Lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood

  • Deuteronomy 29:26 - and served gods other and worshipped gods whom they knew not and whom he had not given

  • Deuteronomy 30:17 - turn away But if thine heart so that thou wilt not hear but shalt be drawn away and worship gods other and serve

  • Deuteronomy 31:20 - For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers that floweth with milk and honey and they shall have eaten and filled themselves and waxen fat then will they turn gods unto other and serve them and provoke me and break my covenant

  • Ecclesiastes 5:9 - Moreover the profit of the earth is for all the king by the field himself is served

  • Ecclesiastes 5:12 - is sweet The sleep of a labouring man little or much whether he eat but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep

  • Exodus 1:13 - made And the Egyptians the children of Israel with rigour

  • Exodus 1:14 - And they made their lives all their service with hard in morter and in brick all their service in the field all their service wherein they made them serve was with rigour

  • Exodus 3:12 - And he said unto thee that Certainly I will be with thee and this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt ye shall serve God upon this mountain

  • Exodus 4:23 - And I say go thy son that he may serve me and if thou refuse go behold I will slay thy son even thy firstborn

  • Exodus 5:18 - therefore now and work for there shall no straw be given the tale of bricks be given

  • Exodus 6:5 - And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage and I have remembered my covenant

  • Exodus 7:16 - And thou shalt say unto him The LORD God of the Hebrews go And thou shalt say go Let my people that they may serve me in the wilderness thou wouldest not hear and behold hitherto

  • Exodus 8:1 - and say And the LORD unto Moses Go unto Pharaoh and say and say And the LORD go Let my people that they may serve

  • Exodus 8:20 - and say And the LORD unto Moses Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh lo he cometh forth to the water and say and say And the LORD go Let my people that they may serve

  • Exodus 9:1 - him Thus saith Then the LORD unto Moses Go in unto Pharaoh and tell him Thus saith Then the LORD God of the Hebrews go Let my people that they may serve

  • Exodus 9:13 - and say And the LORD unto Moses Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say and say And the LORD God of the Hebrews go Let my people that they may serve

  • Exodus 10:3 - came in And Moses and Aaron unto Pharaoh and said and said the LORD God of the Hebrews How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before go me let my people that they may serve

  • Exodus 10:7 - said servants And Pharaoh's unto him How long shall this man be a snare go that they may serve the LORD their God thou not yet knowest is destroyed that Egypt