Biblica Analytica
H5647G Hebrew

עָבַד

a.vad

to serve

Lexicon Entry

Definition
to serve
Transliteration
a.vad
Strong's Number
H5647G
Occurrences
97

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Strong's
H5647G
Lemma
עָבַד
Transliteration
a.vad
Definition
to serve
Occurrences
97
Model
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Occurrences in Scripture

97 total occurrences across the text — showing 50

Genesis 14:4

They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Genesis 15:13

He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

Genesis 15:14

I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;

Genesis 25:23

Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”

Genesis 27:29

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

Genesis 27:40

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

Genesis 29:15

Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

Genesis 29:18

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

Genesis 29:20

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Genesis 29:25

In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

Genesis 29:27

Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”

Genesis 29:30

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

Genesis 30:29

Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

Genesis 31:6

You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

Genesis 31:41

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 49:15

He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

Exodus 1:13

The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

Exodus 1:14

and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Exodus 5:18

Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”

Exodus 6:5

Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.

Exodus 14:5

The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

Exodus 14:12

Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Exodus 14:12

Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Exodus 21:2

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

Exodus 21:6

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

Leviticus 25:39

“ ‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

Leviticus 25:40

As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:46

You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

Numbers 4:24

“This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

Deuteronomy 6:13

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

Deuteronomy 10:12

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 10:20

You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

Deuteronomy 11:13

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 15:12

If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

Deuteronomy 15:18

It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you; for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

Deuteronomy 20:11

It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Judges 3:8

Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.

Judges 3:14

The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

Judges 9:28

Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?

Judges 9:28

Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?

Judges 9:28

Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?

Judges 9:38

Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”

1 Samuel 4:9

Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”

1 Samuel 4:9

Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”

1 Samuel 7:3

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 7:4

Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.

1 Samuel 8:8

According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.