- Original: עבד - Transliteration: `abad - Phonetic: aw-bad' - Definition: 1. to work, serve a. (Qal) 1. to labour, work, do work 2. to work for another, serve another by labour 3. to serve as subjects 4. to serve (God) 5. to serve (with Levitical service) b. (Niphal) 1. to be worked, be tilled (of land) 2. to make oneself a servant c. (Pual) to be worked d. (Hiphil) 1. to compel to labour or work, cause to labour, cause to serve 2. to cause to serve as subjects e. (Hophal) to be led or enticed to serve - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1553 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication to serve till (causatively) enslave etc.: - X be keep in bondage be bondmen bond-service compel do dress ear execute + 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. Total KJV Occurrences: 288 • been, 1 1 Samuel 4:9 • bondage, 1 Exodus 6:5 • bondmen, 1 Leviticus 25:46 • bondservice, 1 1 Kings 9:21 • do, 14 Numbers 3:7; Numbers 3:8; Numbers 4:23; Numbers 4:30; Numbers 4:47; Numbers 7:5; Numbers 8:19; Numbers 8:22; Numbers 8:26; Numbers 16:9; Numbers 18:6; Numbers 18:23; Joshua 22:27; Isaiah 19:21 • done, 1 Genesis 30:26 • dress, 2 Genesis 2:15; Deuteronomy 28:39 • ear, 1 Isaiah 30:24 • eared, 1 Deuteronomy 21:4 • execute, 1 Numbers 8:11 • husbandman, 1 Zechariah 13:5 • keep, 1 Exodus 13:5 • labor, 2 Exodus 20:9; Deuteronomy 5:13 • man, 1 Ecclesiastes 5:12 • pass, 1 Isaiah 28:21 • servant, 1 Genesis 49:15 • servants, 3 1 Samuel 4:9; 2 Kings 10:19; 1 Chronicles 19:19 • serve, 162 Genesis 15:13; Genesis 15:14; Genesis 25:23; Genesis 27:29; Genesis 27:40; Genesis 29:15; Genesis 29:18; Genesis 29:25; Genesis 29:27; Exodus 1:13; Exodus 1:14; Exodus 3:12; Exodus 4:23; Exodus 7:16; Exodus 8:1; Exodus 8:20; Exodus 9:1; Exodus 9:13; Exodus 10:3; Exodus 10:7; Exodus 10:8; Exodus 10:11; Exodus 10:24; Exodus 10:26(2); Exodus 12:31; Exodus 14:12(2); Exodus 20:5; Exodus 21:2; Exodus 21:6; Exodus 23:24; Exodus 23:25; Exodus 23:33; Leviticus 25:39; Leviticus 25:40; Numbers 4:24; Numbers 4:26; Numbers 8:25; Numbers 18:7; Numbers 18:21; Deuteronomy 4:19; Deuteronomy 4:28; Deuteronomy 5:9; Deuteronomy 6:13; Deuteronomy 7:4; Deuteronomy 7:16; Deuteronomy 8:19; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 10:20; Deuteronomy 11:13; Deuteronomy 11:16; Deuteronomy 12:30; Deuteronomy 13:2; Deuteronomy 13:4; Deuteronomy 13:6; Deuteronomy 13:13; Deuteronomy 15:12; Deuteronomy 20:11; Deuteronomy 28:14; Deuteronomy 28:36; Deuteronomy 28:48; Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 29:18; Deuteronomy 30:17; Deuteronomy 31:20; Joshua 16:10; Joshua 22:5; Joshua 23:7; Joshua 24:14(2); Joshua 24:15(3); Joshua 24:16; Joshua 24:18; Joshua 24:19; Joshua 24:20; Joshua 24:21; Joshua 24:22; Joshua 24:24; Judges 2:19; Judges 9:28(3); Judges 9:38; 1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Samuel 11:1; 1 Samuel 12:10; 1 Samuel 12:14; 1 Samuel 12:20; 1 Samuel 12:24; 1 Samuel 17:9; 1 Samuel 26:19; 2 Samuel 15:8; 2 Samuel 16:19; 2 Samuel 22:44; 1 Kings 9:6; 1 Kings 12:4; 1 Kings 12:7; 2 Kings 10:18; 2 Kings 17:35; 2 Kings 25:24; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Chronicles 7:19; 2 Chronicles 10:4; 2 Chronicles 30:8; 2 Chronicles 33:16; 2 Chronicles 34:33(2); 2 Chronicles 35:3; Job 21:15; Job 36:11; Job 39:9; Psalm 2:11; Psalm 18:43; Psalm 22:30; Psalm 72:11; Psalm 97:7; Psalm 100:2; Psalm 102:22; Isaiah 14:3; Isaiah 19:23; Isaiah 43:23; Isaiah 43:24; Isaiah 60:12; Jeremiah 5:19; Jeremiah 11:10; Jeremiah 13:10; Jeremiah 16:13; Jeremiah 17:4; Jeremiah 25:6; Jeremiah 25:11; Jeremiah 25:14; Jeremiah 27:6; Jeremiah 27:7(2); Jeremiah 27:8; Jeremiah 27:9; Jeremiah 27:11; Jeremiah 27:12; Jeremiah 27:13; Jeremiah 27:14; Jeremiah 27:17; Jeremiah 28:14(2); Jeremiah 30:8; Jeremiah 30:9; Jeremiah 34:9; Jeremiah 34:10; Jeremiah 35:15; Jeremiah 40:9(2); Jeremiah 44:3; Ezekiel 20:39; Ezekiel 20:40; Ezekiel 29:18; Ezekiel 48:18; Ezekiel 48:19(2); Zephaniah 3:9; Malachi 3:14 • served, 61 Genesis 14:4; Genesis 29:20; Genesis 29:30; Genesis 30:26; Genesis 30:29; Genesis 31:6; Genesis 31:41; Deuteronomy 12:2; Deuteronomy 17:3; Deuteronomy 29:26; Joshua 23:16; Joshua 24:2; Joshua 24:14; Joshua 24:15; Joshua 24:31; Judges 2:7; Judges 2:11; Judges 2:13; Judges 3:6; Judges 3:7; Judges 3:8; Judges 3:14; Judges 10:6(2); Judges 10:10; Judges 10:13; Judges 10:16; 1 Samuel 7:4; 1 Samuel 8:8; 1 Samuel 12:10; 2 Samuel 10:19; 2 Samuel 16:19; 1 Kings 4:21; 1 Kings 9:9; 1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 22:53; 2 Kings 10:18; 2 Kings 17:12; 2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 17:33; 2 Kings 17:41; 2 Kings 18:7; 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Kings 21:21(2); 2 Chronicles 7:22; 2 Chronicles 24:18; 2 Chronicles 33:3; 2 Chronicles 33:22; Nehemiah 9:35; Psalm 106:36; Ecclesiastes 5:9; Jeremiah 5:19; Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 16:11; Jeremiah 22:9; Jeremiah 34:14; Ezekiel 29:18; Ezekiel 29:20; Ezekiel 34:27; Hosea 12:12 • servedst, 1 Deuteronomy 28:47 • serveth, 3 Malachi 3:17; Malachi 3:18(2) • service, 4 Numbers 4:37; Numbers 4:41; Numbers 8:15; Jeremiah 22:13 • serving, 2 Exodus 14:5; Deuteronomy 15:18 • set, 1 2 Chronicles 2:18 • till, 4 Genesis 2:5; Genesis 3:23; 2 Samuel 9:10; Jeremiah 27:11 • tilled, 2 Ezekiel 36:9; Ezekiel 36:34 • tiller, 1 Genesis 4:2 • tillest, 1 Genesis 4:12 • tilleth, 2 Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 28:19 • work, 4 Exodus 5:18; Exodus 34:21; Deuteronomy 15:19; Isaiah 19:9 • worshipers, 5 2 Kings 10:19; 2 Kings 10:21; 2 Kings 10:22; 2 Kings 10:23(2) • wrought, 1 Deuteronomy 21:3 """