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:
2 Chronicles 7:22: "of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore"
2 Chronicles 10:4: "yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve"
2 Chronicles 24:18: "of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath"
2 Chronicles 30:8: "yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever: and serve"
2 Chronicles 33:3: "all the host of heaven, and served"
2 Chronicles 33:16: "and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel."
2 Chronicles 33:22: "Manasseh his father had made, and served"
2 Chronicles 34:33: "all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God."
2 Chronicles 34:33: "that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all"
2 Chronicles 35:3: "it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God,"
Nehemiah 9:35: "For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest"
Job 21:15: "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray"
Job 36:11: "If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures."
Job 39:9: "Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?"
Psalms 2:11: " Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling."
Psalms 18:43: "of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve"
Psalms 22:30: "A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation."
Psalms 72:11: "shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve"
Psalms 97:7: "Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all"
Psalms 100:2: " Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing."
Psalms 102:22: "are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD."
Psalms 106:36: " And they served their idols: which were a snare"
Proverbs 12:11: " He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding."
Proverbs 28:19: " He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough."
Ecclesiastes 5:9: "of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field."
Ecclesiastes 5:12: "The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much:"
Isaiah 14:3: "and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,"
Isaiah 19:9: " Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded."
Isaiah 19:21: "the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow"
Isaiah 19:23: "into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians."
Isaiah 28:21: "his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act."
Isaiah 30:24: "The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which"
Isaiah 43:23: "hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense."
Isaiah 43:24: "me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities."
Isaiah 60:12: "and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted."
Jeremiah 5:19: "these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods"
Jeremiah 5:19: "me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land"
Jeremiah 8:2: "whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom"
Jeremiah 11:10: "went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house"
Jeremiah 13:10: "after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle,"
Jeremiah 16:11: "and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not"
Jeremiah 16:13: "not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods"
Jeremiah 17:4: "from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land"
Jeremiah 22:9: "their God, and worshiped other gods, and served"
Jeremiah 22:13: "by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth"
Jeremiah 25:6: "after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger"
Jeremiah 25:11: "and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy"
Jeremiah 25:14: "nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds,"
Jeremiah 27:6: "of the field have I given him also to serve"
Jeremiah 27:7: "And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time"
