Strong's #5673: `abiydah (pronounced ab-ee-daw')

(Aramaic) from 5648; labor or business:--affairs, service, work.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

(Aramaic)

‛ăbı̂ydâh

1) work, service, ritual, worship

1a) work, administration

1b) ritual, service

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H5648

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Ezra 4:24: "Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So"
Ezra 5:8: "is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands."
Ezra 6:7: " Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders"
Ezra 6:18: "and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written"
Daniel 2:49: "Meshach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel"
Daniel 3:12: "whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach,"