עֶ֫בֶד
e.ved
1. slave, servant
a. slave, servant, man-servant
b. subjects
c. servants, worshippers (of God)
d. servant (in special sense as prophets, Levites etc)
e. servant (of Israel)
f. servant (as form of address between equals)
Aramaic equivalent: a.vad (עֲבַד "servant/slave" H5649)
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Concordance 714 verses
- Isaiah 53:11 עַבְדִּ֖י
After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
- Isaiah 54:17 עַבְדֵ֨י
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
- Isaiah 56:6 לַעֲבָדִ֑ים
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants— all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—
- Isaiah 63:17 עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ
Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
- Isaiah 65:8 עֲבָדַ֔י
This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.
- Isaiah 65:9 וַעֲבָדַ֖י
And I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and heirs from Judah; My elect will possess My mountains, and My servants will dwell there.
- Isaiah 65:13 עֲבָדַ֤י׀עֲבָדַ֛יעֲבָדַ֛י
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
- Isaiah 65:14 עֲבָדַ֛י
My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.
- Isaiah 65:15 וְלַעֲבָדָ֥יו
You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
- Isaiah 66:14 עֲבָדָ֔יו
When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.
- Jeremiah 2:14 הַעֶ֙בֶד֙
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
- Jeremiah 7:25 עֲבָדַ֣י
From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
- Jeremiah 21:7 עֲבָדָ֣יו׀
‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
- Jeremiah 22:2 וַעֲבָדֶ֙יךָ֙
saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.
- Jeremiah 22:4 וְעַבְדּוֹ
For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
- Jeremiah 25:4 עֲבָדָ֧יו
And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.
- Jeremiah 25:9 עַבְדִּי֒
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
- Jeremiah 25:19 עֲבָדָ֥יו
Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people;
- Jeremiah 26:5 עֲבָדַ֣י
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,
- Jeremiah 27:6 עַבְדִּ֑י
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.
- Jeremiah 29:19 עֲבָדַ֤י
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.”
- Jeremiah 30:10 עַבְדִּ֨י
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.
- Jeremiah 33:21 עַבְדִּ֔י
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.
- Jeremiah 33:22 עַבְדִּ֔י
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.”
- Jeremiah 33:26 עַבְדִּ֜י
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.”
- Jeremiah 34:9 עַבְדּ֞וֹ
that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
- Jeremiah 34:10 עַבְדּ֞וֹ
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,
- Jeremiah 34:11 הָֽעֲבָדִים֙לַעֲבָדִ֖ים
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
- Jeremiah 34:13 עֲבָדִ֖ים
“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:
- Jeremiah 34:16 עַבְדּוֹ֙לַעֲבָדִ֖ים
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.
- Jeremiah 35:15 עֲבָדַ֣י
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.
- Jeremiah 36:24 עֲבָדָ֔יו
Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.
- Jeremiah 36:31 עֲבָדָ֖יו
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.”
- Jeremiah 37:2 וַעֲבָדָ֖יו
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.
- Jeremiah 37:18 וְלַעֲבָדֶ֙יךָ֙
Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?
- Jeremiah 43:10 עַבְדִּ֔י
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.
- Jeremiah 44:4 עֲבָדַ֣י
Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
- Jeremiah 46:26 עֲבָדָ֑יו
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.
- Jeremiah 46:27 עַבְדִּ֤י
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.
- Jeremiah 46:28 עַבְדִּ֤י
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.”
- Lamentations 5:8 עֲבָדִים֙
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
- Ezekiel 28:25 לְעַבְדִּ֥י
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.
- Ezekiel 34:23 עַבְדִּ֣י
I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
- Ezekiel 34:24 וְעַבְדִּ֥י
I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.
- Ezekiel 37:24 וְעַבְדִּ֤י
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.
- Ezekiel 37:25 לְעַבְדִּ֣יעַבְדִּ֔י
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.
- Ezekiel 38:17 עֲבָדַי֙
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?
- Ezekiel 46:17 מֵֽעֲבָדָ֔יו
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.
- Daniel 1:12 עֲבָדֶ֖יךָ
“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
- Daniel 1:13 עֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃
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.”