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)


  • Genesis 29:27 - Fulfil week her and we will give her thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven years other

  • Genesis 29:30 - And he went in also Rachel and he loved also Rachel more than Leah and served with him yet seven years other

  • Genesis 30:26 - Give me my wives and my children which I have done for thou knowest my service which I have done

  • Genesis 30:29 - And he said unto him Thou knowest how I have served how thy cattle

  • Genesis 31:6 - And ye know that with all my power I have served your father

  • Genesis 31:41 - Thus have I been twenty years in thy house I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters and six years for thy cattle and thou hast changed my wages ten times

  • Genesis 49:15 - And he saw that rest was good and the land that it was pleasant and bowed his shoulder to bear unto tribute and became a servant

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

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • Isaiah 28:21 - as in mount Perazim shall rise up For the LORD as in the valley of Gibeon he shall be wroth that he may do his work his strange his work and bring to pass act his strange act

  • Isaiah 30:24 - The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground provender clean shall eat which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan

  • Isaiah 43:23 - Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings me with thy sacrifices neither hast thou honoured I have not caused thee to serve with an offering nor wearied thee with incense

  • Isaiah 43:24 - Thou hast bought with money me no sweet cane me with the fat of thy sacrifices neither hast thou filled but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities

  • Isaiah 60:12 - For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish For the nation shall be utterly shall be utterly

  • Jeremiah 5:19 - And it shall come to pass when ye shall say Wherefore doeth the LORD gods And it shall come to pass when ye shall say them Like as ye have forsaken me and served gods strange in a land me and served strangers in a land

  • Jeremiah 8:2 - And they shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven whom they have loved and whom they have served whom they have walked and after and whom they have sought and whom they have worshipped they shall not be gathered nor be buried they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth

  • Jeremiah 11:10 - They are turned back to the iniquities with their fathers of their forefathers which refused to hear my words and they went after gods other to serve have broken and the house of Israel and the house of Judah my covenant which I made with their fathers