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:
1 Chronicles 25:1: "and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:"
1 Chronicles 25:6: "with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's"
1 Chronicles 26:8: "and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and two of Obed-edom."
1 Chronicles 26:30: "Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king."
1 Chronicles 27:26: "them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:"
1 Chronicles 28:13: "and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels"
1 Chronicles 28:13: "of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD."
1 Chronicles 28:14: "for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver"
1 Chronicles 28:14: "for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver"
1 Chronicles 28:14: "of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:"
1 Chronicles 28:14: "of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:"
1 Chronicles 28:15: "of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick."
1 Chronicles 28:20: "thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD."
1 Chronicles 28:21: "of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner"
1 Chronicles 28:21: "willing skillful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly"
1 Chronicles 29:7: "And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents"
2 Chronicles 8:14: "the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise"
2 Chronicles 10:4: "now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke"
2 Chronicles 12:8: "they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."
2 Chronicles 12:8: "his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."
2 Chronicles 24:12: "it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired"
2 Chronicles 29:35: "of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order."
2 Chronicles 31:2: "their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings,"
2 Chronicles 31:16: "that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges"
2 Chronicles 31:21: "work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments,"
2 Chronicles 34:13: "of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes,"
2 Chronicles 34:13: "of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes,"
2 Chronicles 35:2: "in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 35:10: " So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in"
2 Chronicles 35:15: "waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren"
2 Chronicles 35:16: "So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover,"
Ezra 8:20: "David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims:"
Nehemiah 3:5: "put not their necks to the work of their Lord."
Nehemiah 5:18: "not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this"
Nehemiah 10:32: "yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;"
Nehemiah 10:37: "might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage."
Psalms 104:14: "to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of"
Psalms 104:23: "Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening."
Isaiah 14:3: "from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,"
Isaiah 28:21: "his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act."
Isaiah 28:21: "and bring to pass his act, his strange act."
Isaiah 32:17: "of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever."
Lamentations 1:3: "is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth"
Ezekiel 29:18: "his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head"
Ezekiel 29:18: "nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against"
Ezekiel 44:14: "of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done"
