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Lexicon :: Strong's H5656 - ʿăḇōḏâ

Aa
עֲבֹדָה
Transliteration
ʿăḇōḏâ
Pronunciation
ab-o-daw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1553c

Strong’s Definitions

עֲבֹדָה ʻăbôdâh, ab-o-daw'; or עֲבוֹדָה ʻăbôwdâh; from H5647; work of any kind:—act, bondage, bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, × wrought.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 141x

The KJV translates Strong's H5656 in the following manner: service (96x), servile (12x), work (10x), bondage (8x), act (2x), serve (2x), servitude (2x), tillage (2x), effect (1x), labour (1x), miscellaneous (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 141x
The KJV translates Strong's H5656 in the following manner: service (96x), servile (12x), work (10x), bondage (8x), act (2x), serve (2x), servitude (2x), tillage (2x), effect (1x), labour (1x), miscellaneous (5x).

  1. labour, service

    1. labour, work

    2. labour (of servant or slave)

    3. labour, service (of captives or subjects)

    4. service (of God)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֲבֹדָה ʻăbôdâh, ab-o-daw'; or עֲבוֹדָה ʻăbôwdâh; from H5647; work of any kind:—act, bondage, bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, × wrought.
STRONGS H5656: Abbreviations
† עַבֹדָה, and (Chronicles) עֲבוֺדָה 145 noun feminine labour, service (on formation see LagBN 179 BaNB 61); — י׳ Exodus 1:14 + 41 times; construct עֲבֹדַת Exodus 30:16 + 43 times; suffix עֲבֹדָתִי Genesis 30:26 + 33 times suffixes; in Chronicles עֲבוֺדָה 1 Chronicles 28:14 + 7 times; construct עֲבוֺדַת 1 Chronicles 6:33 [1 Chronicles 6:48] + 13 times; suffix עֲבוֺדָתִי 2 Chronicles 12:8; עֲבוֺדָתָם 1 Chronicles 6:17 [1 Chronicles 6:32]; 2 Chronicles 31:16; —
1. † labour, work, Psalm 104:23; in the field Exodus 1:14; 1 Chronicles 27:26, probably Nehemiah 10:38 [Nehemiah 10:37] (עָרֵי ע׳), Psalm 104:14 (עֵשֶׂב לע׳); in fine linen 1 Chronicles 4:21; in erection of tabernacle Exodus 35:24; Exodus 36:1, Exodus 36:3, Exodus 36:5; Exodus 39:42 (P); in repairing temple 2 Chronicles 34:13 (twice in verse); כל מלאכת עבדה לא תעשׂוּ ye shall do no laborious work Leviticus 23:7, Leviticus 23:8, Leviticus 23:21, Leviticus 23:25, Leviticus 23:35, Leviticus 23:36; Numbers 28:18, Numbers 28:25, Numbers 28:26; Numbers 29:1, Numbers 29:12, Numbers 29:35 (P); figurative of man, הַצְּדָקָה ע׳ Isaiah 32:17 (|| מַעֲשֵׂה הַצּ׳); of God's work of judgment Isaiah 28:21 (twice in verse).
†2. labour of servant or slave: of Jacob for Laban Genesis 29:27; Genesis 30:26 (JE); עֶבֶד ע׳ of bondservant Leviticus 25:39 (P); of the Nethinim Ezra 8:20; service of things, vessels of tabernacle and temple Numbers 4:26, Numbers 4:32 (P) 1 Chronicles 9:28; 1 Chronicles 28:14 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 28:15.
†3. labour, service of captives or subjects: of Israel in Egypt Exodus 1:14; Exodus 2:23 (twice in verse) (P), Exodus 5:11 (E), Exodus 6:6 (P); הע׳ כבד(הׅ Exodus 5:9 (E) Nehemiah 5:18; קשׁה ע׳ Exodus 1:14; Exodus 6:9 (P) Deuteronomy 26:6; 1 Kings 12:4 2 Chronicles 10:4; Isaiah 14:3; מֵרֹב ע׳ Lamentations 1:3; ממלכוֺת ע׳ 2 Chronicles 12:8; המלך ע׳ 1 Chronicles 26:30; אדניהם ע׳ Nehemiah 3:5; military service Ezekiel 29:18 (twice in verse).
4. service of God, in P Chronicles, Ezra: by people Joshua 22:27 (P) 2 Chronicles 12:8, feast of passover Exodus 12:25, Exodus 12:26; 2 Chronicles 35:10, 2 Chronicles 35:16, unleavened bread Exodus 13:5; Levites and priests Numbers 4:19, Numbers 4:49; Numbers 8:11; 1 Chronicles 24:3, 1 Chronicles 24:19; 2 Chronicles 8:14; 2 Chronicles 31:16; מתנה ע׳ Numbers 18:7; Levites Exodus 38:21; Numbers 4:24, Numbers 4:27 (twice in verse); Numbers 4:28, Numbers 4:33, Numbers 4:47 (twice in verse); Numbers 7:7, Numbers 7:8; Numbers 8:26; Numbers 18:21; 1 Chronicles 6:17 [1 Chronicles 6:32]; 2 Chronicles 31:2; with בְּאֹהֶל מוֺעֵד Numbers 4:4, Numbers 4:23, Numbers 4:31, Numbers 4:33, Numbers 4:35, Numbers 4:39, Numbers 4:43, Numbers 8:19, Numbers 8:22, Numbers 18:31; אֹהֶל מוֺעֵד Exodus 30:16; Numbers 4:30; Numbers 7:5; Numbers 8:24; Numbers 18:4, Numbers 18:6, Numbers 18:21, Numbers 18:23, compare Exodus 35:21; Numbers 7:5; (ה)מִשְׁכָּן Exodus 39:32, Exodus 39:40; Numbers 3:7, Numbers 3:8; Numbers 16:9; 1 Chronicles 6:33 [1 Chronicles 6:48], compare Exodus 27:19; Numbers 3:36; 1 Chronicles 23:26; הַקֹּדֶשׁ ע׳ Numbers 7:9, compare Numbers 3:31; of its court Numbers 3:26; more specifically משׂא ע׳ Numbers 4:47; צבא הע׳ Numbers 8:25; (ה)אלהים בית י׳ ע׳ 1 Chronicles 23:24, 1 Chronicles 23:28, 1 Chronicles 23:32; 1 Chronicles 25:6; 1 Chronicles 28:13 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 28:21 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 29:7; 2 Chronicles 29:35; 2 Chronicles 31:21; 2 Chronicles 35:2; Nehemiah 10:33 [Nehemiah 10:32]; בית האלהים מלאכת ע׳ 1 Chronicles 9:13; 1 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Chronicles 24:12; מעשׂה ע׳ 1 Chronicles 23:28; its service Ezekiel 44:14; 1 Chronicles 9:19; specific service of Levitical singers 1 Chronicles 25:1 (twice in verse), and doorkeepers 1 Chronicles 26:8; 2 Chronicles 35:15.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H5673.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

29:27; 30:26; 30:26

Exodus

1:14; 1:14; 1:14; 1:14; 2:23; 5:9; 5:11; 6:6; 6:9; 12:25; 12:26; 13:5; 27:19; 30:16; 30:16; 35:21; 35:24; 36:1; 36:3; 36:5; 38:21; 39:32; 39:40; 39:42

Leviticus

23:7; 23:8; 23:21; 23:25; 23:35; 23:36; 25:39

Numbers

3:7; 3:8; 3:26; 3:31; 3:36; 4:4; 4:19; 4:23; 4:24; 4:26; 4:27; 4:28; 4:30; 4:31; 4:32; 4:33; 4:33; 4:35; 4:39; 4:43; 4:47; 4:47; 4:49; 7:5; 7:5; 7:7; 7:8; 7:9; 8:11; 8:19; 8:22; 8:24; 8:25; 8:26; 16:9; 18:4; 18:6; 18:7; 18:21; 18:21; 18:23; 18:31; 28:18; 28:25; 28:26; 29:1; 29:12; 29:35

Deuteronomy

26:6

Joshua

22:27

1 Kings

12:4

1 Chronicles

4:21; 6:32; 6:32; 6:48; 6:48; 9:13; 9:19; 9:28; 23:24; 23:26; 23:28; 23:28; 23:32; 24:3; 24:19; 25:1; 25:6; 26:8; 26:30; 27:26; 28:13; 28:14; 28:14; 28:15; 28:20; 28:21; 29:7

2 Chronicles

8:14; 10:4; 12:8; 12:8; 12:8; 24:12; 29:35; 31:2; 31:16; 31:16; 31:21; 34:13; 35:2; 35:10; 35:15; 35:16

Ezra

8:20

Nehemiah

3:5; 5:18; 10:32; 10:37

Psalms

104:14; 104:23

Isaiah

14:3; 28:21; 32:17

Lamentations

1:3

Ezekiel

29:18; 44:14

H5656

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Strong's Number H5656 matches the Hebrew עֲבֹדָה (ʿăḇōḏâ),
which occurs 145 times in 125 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 29:27–Num 4:49)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:27 - Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:26 - Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:23 - Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:9 - Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:11 - Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:6 - Say then to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will take you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians, and make you safe from their power, and will make you free by the strength of my arm after great punishments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:9 - And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:25 - And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:26 - And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:19 - All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:16 - And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the price of your lives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:21 - And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:24 - Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:1 - So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:3 - And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:5 - And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:21 - This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:32 - So all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting was done; as the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:40

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:40 - The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:42

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:42 - The children of Israel did everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:7 - On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:8 - And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21 - And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:25 - Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:35 - On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:36 - Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39 - And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7 - In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8 - And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:26 - And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31 - In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36 - And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:4 - And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:19 - But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:23 - All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:24 - This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:26 - And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:27 - From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28 - This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:30 - Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31 - And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:32 - And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:33 - This is the work which the sons of Merari are to do in connection with the Tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:35 - Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:39 - All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:43 - All those from thirty to fifty years old who did the work in the Tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:47 - Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:49 - At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses, every one in relation to his work and to his part in the transport; so they were numbered by Moses at the order of the Lord.

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