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Word study · Hebrew

עֶ֫בֶד

e.vedH5650

servant/slave

Used 799 times in the tagged text.

What it means

  • slave, servant
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • 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)

Same idea, other words · Servant and slave

'Servant of the Lord' is a title of honor for Moses, David, the prophets and above all the Messiah. Translators render the same words 'servant' or 'slave' depending on context.

Where it appears

  • Genesis88
  • Exodus43
  • Leviticus9
  • Numbers11
  • Deuteronomy29
  • Joshua27
  • Judges6
  • 1 Samuel63
  • 2 Samuel106
  • 1 Kings76
  • 2 Kings58
  • 1 Chronicles27
  • 2 Chronicles44
  • Ezra5
  • Nehemiah22
  • Esther7
  • Job12
  • Psalms55
  • Proverbs10
  • Ecclesiastes4
  • Isaiah40
  • Jeremiah32
  • Lamentations1
  • Ezekiel8
  • Daniel7
  • Joel1
  • Amos1
  • Micah1
  • Haggai1
  • Zechariah3
  • Malachi2

Every use · 751–799 of 799 · BSB

  1. Jeremiah 26:5עֲבָדַ֣יservants my

    and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,

  2. Jeremiah 27:6עַבְדִּ֑יservant my

    So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.

  3. Jeremiah 29:19עֲבָדַ֤יservants my

    I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”

  4. Jeremiah 30:10עַבְדִּ֨יO servant my

    As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.

  5. Jeremiah 33:21עַבְדִּ֔יservant my

    then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.

  6. Jeremiah 33:22עַבְדִּ֔יservant my

    As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”

  7. Jeremiah 33:26עַבְדִּ֜יservant my

    then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”

  8. Jeremiah 34:9עַבְדּ֞וֹ[male] slave his

    that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.

  9. Jeremiah 34:10עַבְדּ֞וֹ[male] slave his

    So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,

  10. Jeremiah 34:11הָֽעֲבָדִים֙the [male] slaves

    but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.

  11. Jeremiah 34:11לַעֲבָדִ֖יםfor [male] slaves

    but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.

  12. Jeremiah 34:13עֲבָדִ֖יםslaves

    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:

  13. Jeremiah 34:16עַבְדּוֹ֙[male] slave his

    But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.

  14. Jeremiah 34:16לַעֲבָדִ֖ים<into> [male] slaves

    But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.

  15. Jeremiah 35:15עֲבָדַ֣יservants my

    Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.

  16. Jeremiah 36:24עֲבָדָ֔יוservants his

    Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.

  17. Jeremiah 36:31עֲבָדָ֖יוservants his

    I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”

  18. Jeremiah 37:2וַעֲבָדָ֖יוand servants his

    But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.

  19. Jeremiah 37:18וְלַעֲבָדֶ֙יךָ֙and to servants your

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

  20. Jeremiah 43:10עַבְדִּ֔יservant my

    Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

  21. Jeremiah 44:4עֲבָדַ֣יservants my

    Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’

  22. Jeremiah 46:26עֲבָדָ֑יוservants his

    I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.

  23. Jeremiah 46:27עַבְדִּ֤יO servant my

    But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.

  24. Jeremiah 46:28עַבְדִּ֤יO servant my

    And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

  25. Lamentations 5:8עֲבָדִים֙slaves

    Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

  26. Ezekiel 28:25לְעַבְדִּ֥יto servant my

    This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they have been scattered, I will show Myself holy among them in the sight of the nations. Then they will dwell in their own land, which I have given to My servant Jacob.

  27. Ezekiel 34:23עַבְדִּ֣יservant my

    I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.

  28. Ezekiel 34:24וְעַבְדִּ֥יand servant my

    I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.

  29. Ezekiel 37:24וְעַבְדִּ֤יand servant my

    My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.

  30. Ezekiel 37:25לְעַבְדִּ֣יto servant my

    They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.

  31. Ezekiel 37:25עַבְדִּ֔יservant my

    They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.

  32. Ezekiel 38:17עֲבָדַי֙servants my

    This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

  33. Ezekiel 46:17מֵֽעֲבָדָ֔יוof servants his

    But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.

  34. Daniel 1:12עֲבָדֶ֖יךָservants your

    “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

  35. Daniel 1:13עֲבָדֶֽיךָservants your

    Then compare our appearances with those of the young men who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”

  36. Daniel 9:6עֲבָדֶ֣יךָservants your

    We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, and fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  37. Daniel 9:10עֲבָדָ֥יוservants his

    and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

  38. Daniel 9:11עֶֽבֶד־[the] servant of

    All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.

  39. Daniel 9:17עַבְדְּךָ֙servant your

    So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.

  40. Daniel 10:17עֶ֤בֶד[the] servant of

    How can I, your servant, speak with you, my lord? Now I have no strength, nor is any breath left in me.”

  41. Joel 2:29הָֽעֲבָדִ֖יםthe [male] servants

    Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

  42. Amos 3:7עֲבָדָ֖יוservants his

    Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

  43. Micah 6:4עֲבָדִ֖יםslaves

    For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.

  44. Haggai 2:23עַבְדִּי֙servant my

    On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will take you, My servant, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and I will make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of Hosts.”

  45. Zechariah 1:6עֲבָדַ֣יservants my

    But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

  46. Zechariah 2:9לְעַבְדֵיהֶ֑םfor own slaves their

    I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”

  47. Zechariah 3:8עַבְדִּ֖יservant my

    Hear now, O high priest Joshua, you and your companions seated before you, who are indeed a sign. For behold, I am going to bring My servant, the Branch.

  48. Malachi 1:6וְעֶ֣בֶדand a servant

    “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

  49. Malachi 4:4עַבְדִּ֑יservant my

    “Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.

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