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Word Study · Strong's H5656 · Hebrew

עֲבֹדָה

abodah

ab-o-daw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻăbôdâh

work of any kind

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

work of any kind

Rendered in the KJV as

act, bondage, [phrase] bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, [idiom] wrought.

  • 145
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 79
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 145 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 79

  • עֲבֹדָ֖ה14
  • עֲבֹדַ֥ת7
  • עֲבֹדַ֖ת6
  • לַעֲבֹדַ֖ת5
  • עֲבֹדָתֽוֹ׃5
  • הָעֲבֹדָ֖ה4
  • הָעֲבֹדָ֥ה4
  • עֲבֹדַת֙4
  • עֲבוֹדַ֥ת4
  • לַעֲבֹדָ֖ה3
  • עֲבֹדַ֣ת3
  • עֲבֹדַ֤ת3

and 67 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 46

  • [the] service of30
  • servitude13
  • service their12
  • the service9
  • for [the] service of6
  • service its6
  • the labor6
  • for service5
  • [is] [the] service of4
  • service4
  • service his4
  • and service3

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

How it parses · 18

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)38
  • noun · feminine singular21
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)16
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular16
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural13
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular12
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular8
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural5
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular4
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfsc · 38
  • HNcfsa · 21
  • HR/Ncfsc · 16
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 16
  • HNcfsc/Sp3mp · 13
  • HNcfsc/Sp3ms · 12
  • HR/Ncfsa · 8
  • HR/Ncfsc/Sp3mp · 5
  • HC/Ncfsa · 4
  • HC/Ncfsc · 3
  • HNcfsc/Sp1bs · 2
  • HC/R/Ncfsa · 1

All 145, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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

Genesis2 occurrences
Exodus23 occurrences
Leviticus7 occurrences
Numbers50 occurrences
Deuteronomy1 occurrence
Joshua1 occurrence
1 Kings1 occurrence
1 Chronicles30 occurrences
2 Chronicles15 occurrences
Ezra1 occurrence
Nehemiah4 occurrences
Psalms2 occurrences
Isaiah4 occurrences
Lamentations1 occurrence
Ezekiel3 occurrences
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).