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)


  • Ezekiel 34:27 - shall yield And the tree of the field her fruit and the earth shall yield her increase in their land and they shall be safe and shall know that I am the LORD when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them out of the hand of those that served

  • Ezekiel 36:9 - For behold I am for you and I will turn unto you and ye shall be tilled and sown

  • Ezekiel 36:34 - land And the desolate shall be tilled whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by

  • Ezekiel 48:18 - And the residue in length and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy and ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city

  • Ezekiel 48:19 - And they that serve the city And they that serve it out of all the tribes of Israel

  • Genesis 2:5 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for had not caused it to rain the LORD God it was in the earth a man and there was not to till the ground

  • Genesis 2:15 - took And the LORD God the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep

  • Genesis 3:23 - sent him forth Therefore the LORD God from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken

  • Genesis 4:2 - And she again bare his brother Abel Abel was a keeper of sheep but Cain was a tiller of the ground

  • Genesis 4:12 - When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Genesis 27:29 - serve Let people bow down thee and nations to thee be lord over thy brethren bow down sons and let thy mother's be every one that curseth be every one that curseth be he that blesseth be he that blesseth

  • Genesis 27:40 - And by thy sword shalt thou live thy brother and shalt serve and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck

  • Genesis 29:15 - said And Laban unto Jacob Because thou art my brother shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought tell me what shall thy wages

  • Genesis 29:18 - loved And Jacob Rachel and said I will serve thee seven years Rachel daughter thy younger

  • Genesis 29:20 - served And Jacob for Rachel seven years and they seemed days unto him but a few for the love he had

  • Genesis 29:25 - And it came to pass that in the morning behold it was Leah and he said to Laban What is this thou hast done with thee for Rachel unto me did not I serve wherefore then hast thou beguiled