Strong's #5656: `abodah (pronounced ab-o-daw')
or mabowdah {ab-o-daw'}; from 5647; work of any kind:--act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, X wrought.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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‛ăbôdâh
1) labour, service
1a) labour, work
1b) labour (of servant or slave)
1c) labour, service (of captives or subjects)
1d) service (of God)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H5647
Usage:
This word is used 146 times:
Genesis 29:27: "thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet"
Genesis 30:26: "for thou knowest my service which I have done"
Exodus 1:14: "their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service"
Exodus 1:14: "in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service,"
Exodus 1:14: "in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor."
Exodus 2:23: "died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry"
Exodus 2:23: "and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage."
Exodus 5:9: " Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard vain"
Exodus 5:11: "ye can find it: yet not aught of your work shall be diminished."
Exodus 6:6: "from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem"
Exodus 6:9: "Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage."
Exodus 12:25: "that ye shall keep this service."
Exodus 12:26: "unto you, What mean ye by this service?"
Exodus 13:5: "that thou shalt keep this service in this month."
Exodus 27:19: "the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins"
Exodus 30:16: "the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be"
Exodus 35:21: "to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments."
Exodus 35:24: "wood for any work of the service, brought"
Exodus 36:1: "how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that"
Exodus 36:3: "the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they"
Exodus 36:5: "bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which"
Exodus 38:21: "according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son"
Exodus 39:32: "Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel"
Exodus 39:40: "and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,"
Exodus 39:42: "made all the work."
Leviticus 23:7: "convocation: ye shall do no servile work"
Leviticus 23:8: "convocation: ye shall do no servile work"
Leviticus 23:21: "a holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute"
Leviticus 23:25: "Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD."
Leviticus 23:35: "convocation: ye shall do no servile work"
Leviticus 23:36: "is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work"
Leviticus 25:39: "and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:"
Numbers 3:7: "of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle."
Numbers 3:8: "of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle."
Numbers 3:26: "round about, and the cords of it for all the service"
Numbers 3:31: "they minister, and the hanging, and all the service"
Numbers 3:36: "thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth"
Numbers 4:4: "This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:"
Numbers 4:19: "shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:"
Numbers 4:23: "shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle"
Numbers 4:23: "that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation."
Numbers 4:24: "This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:"
Numbers 4:26: "and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve."
Numbers 4:27: "and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens,"
Numbers 4:27: "in all their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge"
Numbers 4:28: "This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge"
Numbers 4:30: "that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation."
Numbers 4:31: "is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle,"
Numbers 4:32: "with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments"
Numbers 4:33: "This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle"
