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HebrewH5656Noun (Feminine)

עֲבֹדָה

a.vo.dah

121Occurrences
H5656Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

work of any kind

or עֲבוֹדָה; from H5647 (עָבַד);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
service[as_servant/slave] 1) labour, service 1a) labour, work 1b) labour (of servant or slave) 1c) labour, service (of captives or subjects) 1d) service (of God)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

עֲבֹדָה appears 121 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Numbers
44
1 Chronicles
21
Exodus
20
2 Chronicles
13
Leviticus
7
Isaiah
3
Ezk
2
Genesis
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 23:24BSB

These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 24:12BSB

Then the king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who supervised the labor on the house of the LORD to hire stonecutters and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, as well as workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.

Exodus 38:21BSB

This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

Leviticus 25:39BSB

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

Numbers 4:24BSB

This is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transport:

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.