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Strong's #5647: `abad (pronounced aw-bad')

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,




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âbad

1) to work, serve

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to labour, work, do work

1a2) to work for another, serve another by labour

1a3) to serve as subjects

1a4) to serve (God)

1a5) to serve (with Levitical service)

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be worked, be tilled (of land)

1b2) to make oneself a servant

1c) (Pual) to be worked

1d) (Hiphil)

1d1) to compel to labour or work, cause to labour, cause to serve

1d2) to cause to serve as subjects

1e) (Hophal) to be led or enticed to serve

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 288 times:

Exodus 23:24: "bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but"
Exodus 23:25: " And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water;"
Exodus 23:33: "lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely"
Exodus 34:21: "Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest"
Leviticus 25:39: "thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:"
Leviticus 25:40: "and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee:"
Leviticus 25:46: "for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children"
Numbers 3:7: "before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle."
Numbers 3:8: "and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle."
Numbers 4:23: "them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation."
Numbers 4:24: "is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:"
Numbers 4:26: "and all that is made for them: so shall they serve."
Numbers 4:30: "shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle"
Numbers 4:37: "of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses"
Numbers 4:41: "of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses"
Numbers 4:47: "years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service"
Numbers 7:5: "Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle"
Numbers 8:11: "of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service"
Numbers 8:15: "that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse"
Numbers 8:19: "from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children"
Numbers 8:22: "And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle"
Numbers 8:25: "of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no"
Numbers 8:26: "of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do"
Numbers 16:9: "you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service"
Numbers 18:6: "of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle"
Numbers 18:7: "of the altar, and within the veil; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office"
Numbers 18:21: "their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation."
Numbers 18:23: "But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear"
Deuteronomy 4:19: "of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided"
Deuteronomy 4:28: "And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone,"
Deuteronomy 5:9: "Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God"
Deuteronomy 5:13: "Six days thou shalt labor, and do all thy work:"
Deuteronomy 6:13: "the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name."
Deuteronomy 7:4: "thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger"
Deuteronomy 7:16: "shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for"
Deuteronomy 8:19: "and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day"
Deuteronomy 10:12: "thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD"
Deuteronomy 10:20: "the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name."
Deuteronomy 11:13: "to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all"
Deuteronomy 11:16: "your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship"
Deuteronomy 12:2: "wherein the nations which ye shall possess served"
Deuteronomy 12:30: "saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so"
Deuteronomy 13:2: "which thou hast not known, and let us serve"
Deuteronomy 13:4: "his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave"
Deuteronomy 13:6: "thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not"
Deuteronomy 13:13: "the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which"
Deuteronomy 15:12: "or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year"
Deuteronomy 15:18: "from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six"
Deuteronomy 15:19: "unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear"
Deuteronomy 17:3: "And hath gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon,"









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