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Word Study · Strong's H5650 · Hebrew

עֶבֶד

ebed

eh'-bed

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻebed

a servant

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a servant

Rendered in the KJV as

[idiom] bondage, bondman, (bond-) servant, (man-) servant.

  • 799
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 202
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 202

  • עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ17
  • עַבְדֵ֣י16
  • עַבְדְּךָ֔14
  • עֶ֥בֶד13
  • עֲבָדָ֖יו13
  • עֲבָדָ֑יו11
  • עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃11
  • עֲבָדָ֔יו10
  • עַבְדְּךָ֙10
  • עֶ֣בֶד9
  • עַבְדֵ֥י9
  • עֲבָדָיו֙9

and 190 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 82

  • servant your99
  • servants his62
  • [the] servants of42
  • servants your40
  • servant his25
  • [the] servant of21
  • slaves17
  • a slave16
  • servant my15
  • to servant your12
  • the servant10
  • to servants your8

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 38

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular105
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular62
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)44
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular44
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular28
  • noun · masculine plural26
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)26
  • noun · masculine singular23
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular21
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular15
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular11
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular11
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 105
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 62
  • HNcmpc · 44
  • HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 44
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 28
  • HNcmpa · 26
  • HNcmsc · 26
  • HNcmsa · 23
  • HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms · 21
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 15
  • HR/Ncmpc/Sp2ms · 11
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 11

The first 500 of 799, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

2 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis88 occurrences
Exodus43 occurrences
Leviticus9 occurrences
Numbers11 occurrences
Deuteronomy29 occurrences
Joshua27 occurrences
Judges6 occurrences
1 Samuel63 occurrences
2 Samuel106 occurrences
1 Kings63 occurrences
Psalms55 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled עֶבֶד

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).