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:
Jeremiah 27:7: "nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him."
Jeremiah 27:8: "and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,"
Jeremiah 27:9: "speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:"
Jeremiah 27:11: "under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith"
Jeremiah 27:11: "their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell"
Jeremiah 27:12: "under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live."
Jeremiah 27:13: "the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?"
Jeremiah 27:14: "unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for"
Jeremiah 27:17: "Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:"
Jeremiah 28:14: "of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon;"
Jeremiah 28:14: "Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field"
Jeremiah 30:8: "thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve"
Jeremiah 30:9: " But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up"
Jeremiah 34:9: "go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother."
Jeremiah 34:10: "go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go."
Jeremiah 34:14: "his brother a Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go"
Jeremiah 35:15: "not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land"
Jeremiah 40:9: "saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land,"
Jeremiah 40:9: "to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon,"
Jeremiah 44:3: "they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom"
Ezekiel 20:39: "the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if"
Ezekiel 20:40: "of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require"
Ezekiel 29:18: "of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus:"
Ezekiel 29:18: "for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against"
Ezekiel 29:20: "of Egypt for his labor wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 34:27: "of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served"
Ezekiel 36:9: "I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:"
Ezekiel 36:34: "And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight"
Ezekiel 48:18: "portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city."
Ezekiel 48:19: " And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel."
Ezekiel 48:19: "And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel."
Hosea 12:12: "into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept"
Zephaniah 3:9: "call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent."
Zechariah 13:5: "am no prophet, I am a husbandman; for man"
Malachi 3:14: "Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept"
Malachi 3:17: "them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth"
Malachi 3:18: "the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not."
Malachi 3:18: "him that serveth God and him that serveth him not."
