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:
Numbers 4:33: "of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar"
Numbers 4:35: "old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:"
Numbers 4:39: "old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,"
Numbers 4:43: "old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,"
Numbers 4:47: "old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden"
Numbers 4:47: "every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle"
Numbers 4:47: "that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,"
Numbers 4:49: "of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered"
Numbers 7:5: "it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give"
Numbers 7:5: "them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service."
Numbers 7:7: "unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:"
Numbers 7:8: "unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron"
Numbers 7:9: "he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders."
Numbers 8:11: "the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD."
Numbers 8:19: "the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle"
Numbers 8:22: "went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before"
Numbers 8:24: "old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:"
Numbers 8:25: "And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve"
Numbers 8:26: "the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge."
Numbers 16:9: "to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD,"
Numbers 18:4: "of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh"
Numbers 18:6: "as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation."
Numbers 18:7: "and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh"
Numbers 18:21: "in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even"
Numbers 18:21: "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"
Numbers 18:31: "it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation."
Numbers 28:18: "convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work"
Numbers 28:25: "convocation; ye shall do no servile work."
Numbers 28:26: "convocation; ye shall do no servile work:"
Numbers 29:1: "convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day"
Numbers 29:12: "a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep"
Numbers 29:35: "a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work"
Deuteronomy 26:6: "us, and laid upon us hard bondage:"
Joshua 22:27: "after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices,"
1 Kings 12:4: "now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke"
1 Chronicles 4:21: "of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,"
1 Chronicles 6:32: "of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order."
1 Chronicles 6:48: "also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God."
1 Chronicles 9:13: "and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God."
1 Chronicles 9:19: "the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers,"
1 Chronicles 9:28: "And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale."
1 Chronicles 23:24: "by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age"
1 Chronicles 23:26: "the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service"
1 Chronicles 23:28: "was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts,"
1 Chronicles 23:28: "of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;"
1 Chronicles 23:32: "of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD."
1 Chronicles 24:3: "the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service."
1 Chronicles 24:19: "These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under"
1 Chronicles 25:1: "and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun,"
