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HebrewH5650Noun (Masculine)

עֶ֫בֶד

e.ved

652Occurrences
H5650Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a servant

from H5647 (עָבַד);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. slave, servant 1a) slave, servant, man-servant 1b) subjects 1c) servants, worshippers (of God) 1d) servant (in special sense as prophets, Levites etc) 1e) servant (of Israel) 1f) servant (as form of address between equals) Aramaic equivalent: a.vad (*עֲבַד *"servant/slave" H5649)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

עֶ֫בֶד appears 652 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Samuel
72
Genesis
72
1 Kings
61
1 Samuel
53
2 Kings
51
Psalms
42
Isaiah
36
2 Chronicles
34

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 16:13BSB

O offspring of His servant Israel,O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

1 Samuel 29:10BSB

Now then, get up early in the morning, along with your master’s servants who came with you, and go as soon as it is light.”

2 Samuel 2:13BSB

So Joab son of Zeruiah, along with the servants of David, marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two camps took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.

Genesis 21:25BSB

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Jeremiah 37:18BSB

Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?

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