עֶ֫בֶד

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Hebrew H5650 Noun, masculine 800 occurrences in 714 verses
עֶ֫בֶד servant/slave

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)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 714 verses

  1. 2 Samuel 14:22 עַבְדְּךָ֜עַבְדּוֹ׃

    Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”

  2. 2 Samuel 14:30 עֲבָדָ֜יועַבְדֵ֧י

    Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

  3. 2 Samuel 14:31 עֲבָדֶ֛ךָ

    Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”

  4. 2 Samuel 15:2 עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃

    He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out and ask, “What city are you from?” And if he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”

  5. 2 Samuel 15:8 עַבְדְּךָ֔

    For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”

  6. 2 Samuel 15:14 עֲבָדָ֨יו

    And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”

  7. 2 Samuel 15:15 עַבְדֵֽי־עֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃

    The king’s servants replied, “Whatever our lord the king decides, we are your servants.”

  8. 2 Samuel 15:18 עֲבָדָיו֙

    and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.

  9. 2 Samuel 15:21 עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃

    But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”

  10. 2 Samuel 15:34 עַבְדְּךָ֨עֶ֣בֶדעַבְדֶּ֑ךָ

    But you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me if you return to the city and say to Absalom: ‘I will be your servant, my king; in the past I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant.’

  11. 2 Samuel 16:6 עַבְדֵ֖י

    He threw stones at David and at all the servants of the king, though the troops and all the mighty men were on David’s right and left.

  12. 2 Samuel 16:11 עֲבָדָ֔יו

    Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.

  13. 2 Samuel 17:20 עַבְדֵי֩

    When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

  14. 2 Samuel 18:7 עַבְדֵ֣י

    There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.

  15. 2 Samuel 18:9 עַבְדֵ֣י

    Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.

  16. 2 Samuel 18:29 עֶ֨בֶדעַבְדֶּ֔ךָ

    The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”

  17. 2 Samuel 19:5 עֲבָדֶ֗יךָ

    Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.

  18. 2 Samuel 19:6 וַעֲבָדִ֔ים

    You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!

  19. 2 Samuel 19:7 עֲבָדֶ֑יךָ

    Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

  20. 2 Samuel 19:14 עֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃

    So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”

  21. 2 Samuel 19:17 עֲבָדָ֖יו

    along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan before the king

  22. 2 Samuel 19:19 עַבְדְּךָ֔

    and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

  23. 2 Samuel 19:20 עַבְדְּךָ֔

    For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”

  24. 2 Samuel 19:26 עַבְדִּ֣יעַבְדְּךָ֜עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃

    “My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,

  25. 2 Samuel 19:27 בְּעַבְדְּךָ֔

    and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.

  26. 2 Samuel 19:28 עַבְדְּךָ֔

    For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”

  27. 2 Samuel 19:35 עַבְדְּךָ֙עַבְדְּךָ֥

    I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

  28. 2 Samuel 19:36 עַבְדְּךָ֛

    Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?

  29. 2 Samuel 19:37 עַבְדְּךָ֙עַבְדְּךָ֣

    Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”

  30. 2 Samuel 20:6 עַבְדֵ֤י

    And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”

  31. 2 Samuel 21:15 וַעֲבָדָ֥יו

    Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines; but David became exhausted.

  32. 2 Samuel 21:22 עֲבָדָֽיו׃פ

    So these four descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.

  33. 2 Samuel 24:10 עַבְדְּךָ֔

    After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

  34. 2 Samuel 24:20 עֲבָדָ֔יו

    When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.

  35. 2 Samuel 24:21 עַבְדּ֑וֹ

    “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

  36. 1 Kings 1:2 עֲבָדָ֗יו

    So his servants said to him, “Let us search for a young virgin for our lord the king, to attend to him and care for him and lie by his side to keep him warm.”

  37. 1 Kings 1:9 עַבְדֵ֥י

    And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.

  38. 1 Kings 1:19 עַבְדְּךָ֖

    And he has sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the other sons of the king, as well as Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he did not invite your servant Solomon.

  39. 1 Kings 1:26 עַ֠בְדֶּךָעַבְדְּךָ֖

    But me your servant he did not invite, nor Zadok the priest, nor Benaiah son of Jehoiada, nor your servant Solomon.

  40. 1 Kings 1:27 עַבְדֶּיךָ

    Has my lord the king let this happen without informing your servant who should sit on the throne after my lord the king?”

  41. 1 Kings 1:33 עַבְדֵ֣י

    “Take my servants with you,” said the king. “Set my son Solomon on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.

  42. 1 Kings 1:47 עַבְדֵ֣י

    The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than your own name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king has bowed in worship on his bed,

  43. 1 Kings 1:51 עַבְדּ֖וֹ

    It was reported to Solomon: “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, and he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon first swear to me not to put his servant to the sword.’”

  44. 1 Kings 2:38 עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ

    “The sentence is fair,” Shimei replied. “Your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken.” And Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.

  45. 1 Kings 2:39 עֲבָדִים֙עֲבָדֶ֖יךָ

    After three years, however, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And Shimei was told, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.”

  46. 1 Kings 2:40 עֲבָדָ֑יועֲבָדָ֖יו

    So Shimei saddled his donkey and set out to Achish at Gath in search of his slaves, and he brought them back from Gath.

  47. 1 Kings 3:6 עַבְדְּךָ֙

    Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

  48. 1 Kings 3:7 עַבְדְּךָ֔

    And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.

  49. 1 Kings 3:8 וְעַ֨בְדְּךָ֔

    Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.

  50. 1 Kings 3:9 לְעַבְדְּךָ֜

    Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”

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