עָבַד

Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Genesis 2:5

• לַֽעֲבֹ֖דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to till

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Genesis 2:15

• לְעָבְדָ֖הּleavedahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to till it

Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Genesis 3:23

• לַֽעֲבֹד֙laavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to till

Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.

Genesis 4:2

• עֹבֵ֥דʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a tiller of

When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4:12

• תַֽעֲבֹד֙taavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will till

For twelve years they had been subject to Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Genesis 14:4

• עָבְד֖וּʾaveduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had served

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Genesis 15:13

• וַעֲבָד֖וּםvaavadumHc/Vqq3cp/Sp3mptagged: and they will serve them

But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

Genesis 15:14

• יַעֲבֹ֖דוּyaavoduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will serve

and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

Genesis 25:23

• יַעֲבֹ֥דyaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will serve

May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

Genesis 27:29

• יַֽעַבְד֣וּךָyaavdukhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: may they serve you

You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

Genesis 27:40

• תַּעֲבֹ֑דtaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will serve

Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

Genesis 29:15

• וַעֲבַדְתַּ֖נִיvaavadtaniHc/Vqq2ms/Sp1bstagged: and you will serve me

Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Genesis 29:18

• אֶֽעֱבָדְךָ֙ʾeevadekhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will serve you

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

Genesis 29:20

• וַיַּעֲבֹ֧דvaiyaavodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he served

When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”

Genesis 29:25

• עָבַ֣דְתִּיʾavadtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: have I served

Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”

Genesis 29:27

• תַּעֲבֹ֣דtaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will serve

Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

Genesis 29:30

• וַיַּעֲבֹ֣דvaiyaavodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he served

Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”

Genesis 30:26

• עָבַ֧דְתִּיʾavadtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have served
• עֲבַדְתִּֽיךָ׃ʾavadtikhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have served you

Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.

Genesis 30:29

• עֲבַדְתִּ֑יךָʾavadtikhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have served you

You know that I have served your father with all my strength.

Genesis 31:6

• עָבַ֖דְתִּיʾavadtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have served

Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!

Genesis 31:41

• עֲבַדְתִּ֜יךָʾavadtikhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I served you

He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.

Genesis 49:15

• עֹבֵֽד׃ סʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: laboring

They worked the Israelites ruthlessly

Exodus 1:13

• וַיַּעֲבִ֧דוּvaiyaaviduHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they compelled to labor

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Exodus 1:14

• עָבְד֥וּʾaveduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they labored

“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”

Exodus 3:12

• תַּֽעַבְדוּן֙taavdunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will serve

and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”

Exodus 4:23

• וְיַֽעַבְדֵ֔נִיveyaavdeniHC/Vqu3ms/Sp1bstagged: so he may serve me

Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”

Exodus 5:18

• עִבְד֔וּʾivduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: work

Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.

Exodus 6:5

• מַעֲבִדִ֣יםmaavidimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: compelling to labor

Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not listened until now.

Exodus 7:16

• וְיַֽעַבְדֻ֖נִיveyaavduniHC/Vqu3mp/Sp1bstagged: so they may serve me

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Exodus 8:1

• וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃veyaavduniHC/Vqu3mp/Sp1bstagged: so they may serve me

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, and when Pharaoh goes out to the water, stand before him and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Exodus 8:20

• וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃veyaavduniHC/Vqu3mp/Sp1bstagged: so they may serve me

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Exodus 9:1

• וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃veyaavduniHC/Vqu3mp/Sp1bstagged: so they may serve me

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Exodus 9:13

• וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃veyaavduniHC/Vqu3mp/Sp1bstagged: so they may serve me

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Exodus 10:3

• וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃veyaavduniHC/Vqu3mp/Sp1bstagged: so they may serve me

Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is in ruins?”

Exodus 10:7

• וְיַֽעַבְד֖וּveyaavduHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may serve

So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will be going?”

Exodus 10:8

• עִבְד֖וּʾivduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: serve

No, only the men may go and worship the LORD, since that is what you have been requesting.” And Moses and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.

Exodus 10:11

• וְעִבְד֣וּveivduconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and serve

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your little ones may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”

Exodus 10:24

• עִבְד֣וּʾivduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: serve

Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, for we will need some of them to worship the LORD our God, and we will not know how we are to worship the LORD until we arrive.”

Exodus 10:26

• לַעֲבֹ֖דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve
• נַּעֲבֹד֙naavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: will we serve

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.

Exodus 12:31

• עִבְד֥וּʾivduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: serve

And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.

Exodus 13:5

• וְעָבַדְתָּ֛veavadtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will serve

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

Exodus 14:5

• מֵעָבְדֵֽנוּ׃meavedenupreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: from serving us

Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Exodus 14:12

• וְנַֽעַבְדָ֣הvenaavdahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: so let us serve
• עֲבֹ֣דʾavodverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: serving

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Exodus 20:5

• תָעָבְדֵ֑ם֒taavedemverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you must be enticed to serve them

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Exodus 20:9

• תַּֽעֲבֹ֔ד֮taavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will labor

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

Exodus 21:2

• יַעֲבֹ֑דyaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will serve

then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.

Exodus 21:6

• וַעֲבָד֖וֹvaavadoHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he will serve him

You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

Exodus 23:24

• תָֽעָבְדֵ֔םtaavedemverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you must be enticed to serve them

So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.

Exodus 23:25

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֗םvaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Exodus 23:33

• תַעֲבֹד֙taavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will serve

Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

Exodus 34:21

• תַּעֲבֹ֔דtaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will labor

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

Leviticus 25:39

• תַעֲבֹ֥דtaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will labor

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:40

• יַעֲבֹ֥דyaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will serve

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.

Leviticus 25:46

• תַּעֲבֹ֑דוּtaavoduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will labor

They are to perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, attending to the service of the tabernacle.

Numbers 3:7

• לַעֲבֹ֖דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by serving

They shall take care of all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and fulfill obligations for the Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.

Numbers 3:8

• לַעֲבֹ֖דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by serving

from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4:23

• לַעֲבֹ֥דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

This is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transport:

Numbers 4:24

• לַעֲבֹ֖דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

the curtains of the courtyard, and the curtains for the entrance at the gate of the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and altar, along with their ropes and all the equipment for their service. The Gershonites will do all that needs to be done with these items.

Numbers 4:26

• וְעָבָֽדוּ׃veavaduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will serve

from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work of the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4:30

• לַעֲבֹ֕דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

These were counted from the Kohathite clans, everyone who could serve at the Tent of Meeting. Moses and Aaron numbered them according to the command of the LORD through Moses.

Numbers 4:37

• הָעֹבֵ֖דhaovedthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the serves

These were counted from the Gershonite clans who served at the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the LORD’s command.

Numbers 4:41

• הָעֹבֵ֖דhaovedthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the serves

from thirty to fifty years old who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4:47

• לַעֲבֹ֨דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

“Accept these gifts from them, that they may be used in the work of the Tent of Meeting. And give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”

Numbers 7:5

• לַעֲבֹ֕דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, so that they may perform the service of the LORD.

Numbers 8:11

• לַעֲבֹ֖דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

After you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 8:15

• לַעֲבֹ֖דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to perform the service for the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary.”

Numbers 8:19

• לַעֲבֹ֞דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

After that, the Levites came to perform their service at the Tent of Meeting in the presence of Aaron and his sons. Thus they did with the Levites just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Numbers 8:22

• לַעֲבֹ֤דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

But at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.

Numbers 8:25

• יַעֲבֹ֖דyaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will serve

After that, they may assist their brothers in fulfilling their duties at the Tent of Meeting, but they themselves are not to do the work. This is how you are to assign responsibilities to the Levites.”

Numbers 8:26

• יַעֲבֹ֑דyaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will serve

Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?

Numbers 16:9

• לַעֲבֹ֗דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

Behold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 18:6

• לַעֲבֹ֕דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”

Numbers 18:7

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֑םvaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 18:21

• עֹֽבְדִ֔יםʾoedimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: serving

The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.

Numbers 18:23

• וְעָבַ֨דveavadHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will serve

When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Deuteronomy 4:19

• וַעֲבַדְתָּ֑םvaavadtamHc/Vqq2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you will serve them

And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

Deuteronomy 4:28

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּם־vaavadtem-Hc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Deuteronomy 5:9

• תָעָבְדֵ֑ם֒taavedemverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you must be enticed to serve them

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Deuteronomy 5:13

• תַּֽעֲבֹ֔ד֮taavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will labor

Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.

Deuteronomy 6:13

• תַעֲבֹ֑דtaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will serve

because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

Deuteronomy 7:4

• וְעָבְד֖וּveaveduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will serve

You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 7:16

• תַעֲבֹד֙taavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will serve

If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

Deuteronomy 8:19

• וַעֲבַדְתָּ֖םvaavadtamHc/Vqq2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you will serve them

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 10:12

• וְלַֽעֲבֹד֙velaavodconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to serve

You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.

Deuteronomy 10:20

• תַעֲבֹ֑דtaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will serve

So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 11:13

• וּלְעָבְד֔וֹuleavedoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and to serve him

But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

Deuteronomy 11:16

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙vaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 12:2

• עָֽבְדוּ־ʾavedu-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have served

be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

Deuteronomy 12:30

• יַעַבְד֜וּyaavduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: do they serve

and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”

Deuteronomy 13:2

• וְנָֽעָבְדֵֽם׃venaavedemHC/VHu1cp/Sp3mptagged: and let us be enticed to serve them

You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.

Deuteronomy 13:4

• תַעֲבֹ֖דוּtaavoduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will serve

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,

Deuteronomy 13:6

• וְנַֽעַבְדָה֙venaavdahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: and let us serve

that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),

Deuteronomy 13:13

• וְנַעַבְדָ֛הvenaavdahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: and let us serve

If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.

Deuteronomy 15:12

• וַעֲבָֽדְךָ֖vaavadekhaHc/Vqq3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he will serve you

Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

Deuteronomy 15:18

• עֲבָֽדְךָ֖ʾavadekhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he has served you

You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.

Deuteronomy 15:19

• תַעֲבֹד֙taavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will labor

and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—

Deuteronomy 17:3

• וַֽיַּעֲבֹד֙vaiyaavodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has served

If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.

Deuteronomy 20:11

• וַעֲבָדֽוּךָ׃vaavadukhaHc/Vqq3cp/Sp2mstagged: and they will serve you

Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,

Deuteronomy 21:3

• עֻבַּד֙ʾubadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been worked

bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.

Deuteronomy 21:4

• יֵעָבֵ֥דyeavedverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is tilled

Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.

Deuteronomy 28:14

• לְעָבְדָֽם׃ סleavedampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to serve them

The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:36

• וְעָבַ֥דְתָּveavadtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will serve

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

Deuteronomy 28:39

• וְעָבָ֑דְתָּveavadetaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will labor

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

Deuteronomy 28:47

• עָבַ֙דְתָּ֙ʾavadtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have served

you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:48

• וְעָבַדְתָּ֣veavadtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will serve

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Deuteronomy 28:64

• וְעָבַ֨דְתָּveavadtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will serve

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

Deuteronomy 29:18

• לַעֲבֹ֔דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

Deuteronomy 29:26

• וַיַּֽעַבְדוּ֙vaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

Deuteronomy 30:17

• וַעֲבַדְתָּֽם׃vaavadtamHc/Vqq2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you will serve them

When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

Deuteronomy 31:20

• וַעֲבָד֔וּםvaavadumHc/Vqq3cp/Sp3mptagged: and they will serve them

But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.

Joshua 16:10

• עֹבֵֽד׃ פʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: laboring

But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Joshua 22:5

• וּלְעָבְד֕וֹuleavedoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and to serve him

Rather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD!’

Joshua 22:27

• לַעֲבֹ֞דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.

Joshua 23:7

• תַעַבְד֔וּםtaavdumverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you must serve them

If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”

Joshua 23:16

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙vaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.

Joshua 24:2

• וַיַּעַבְד֖וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

Joshua 24:14

• וְעִבְד֥וּveivduconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and serve
• עָבְד֨וּʾaveduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they served
• וְעִבְד֖וּveivduconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and serve

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

Joshua 24:15

• לַעֲבֹ֣דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve
• תַעֲבֹדוּן֒taavodunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: will you serve
• עָבְד֣וּʾaveduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they served
• נַעֲבֹ֖דnaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will serve

The people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!

Joshua 24:16

• לַעֲבֹ֖דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”

Joshua 24:18

• נַעֲבֹ֣דnaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will serve

But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

Joshua 24:19

• לַעֲבֹ֣דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”

Joshua 24:20

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֖םvaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

“No!” replied the people. “We will serve the LORD!”

Joshua 24:21

• נַעֲבֹֽד׃naavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will serve

Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.

Joshua 24:22

• לַעֲבֹ֣דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”

Joshua 24:24

• נַעֲבֹ֔דnaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will serve

Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.

Joshua 24:31

• וַיַּעֲבֹ֤דvaiyaavodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it served

And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.

Judges 2:7

• וַיַּעַבְד֤וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

Judges 2:11

• וַיַּעַבְד֖וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

Judges 2:13

• וַיַּעַבְד֥וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

Judges 2:19

• לְעָבְדָ֖םleavedampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to serve them

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Judges 3:6

• וַיַּעַבְד֖וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

Judges 3:7

• וַיַּעַבְד֥וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.

Judges 3:8

• וַיַּעַבְד֧וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

Judges 3:14

• וַיַּעַבְד֤וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

Then Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why should we serve Abimelech?

Judges 9:28

• נַעַבְדֶ֔נּוּnaavdenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: we will serve him
• עִבְד֗וּʾivduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: serve
• נַעַבְדֶ֥נּוּnaavdenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will we serve him

“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”

Judges 9:38

• נַעַבְדֶ֑נּוּnaavdenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: we will serve him

And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.

Judges 10:6

• וַיַּעַבְד֣וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served
• עֲבָדֽוּהוּ׃ʾavaduhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they served him

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”

Judges 10:10

• וַֽנַּעֲבֹ֖דvanaavodHc/Vqw1cptagged: and we have served

But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.

Judges 10:13

• וַתַּעַבְד֖וּvataavduHc/Vqw2mptagged: and you have served

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

Judges 10:16

• וַיַּעַבְד֖וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

Take courage and be men, O Philistines! Otherwise, you will serve the Hebrews just as they served you. Now be men and fight!”

1 Samuel 4:9

• תַּעַבְד֣וּtaavduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you should serve
• עָבְד֖וּʾaveduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have served

Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 7:3

• וְעִבְדֻ֣הוּveivduhuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and serve him

So the Israelites put away the Baals and Ashtoreths and served only the LORD.

1 Samuel 7:4

• וַיַּעַבְד֥וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

Just as they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking Me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.

1 Samuel 8:8

• וַיַּעַבְד֖וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they have served

Soon Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”

1 Samuel 11:1

• וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃venaavdekaHC/Vqu1cp/Sp2mstagged: and we will serve you

Then they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, that we may serve You.’

1 Samuel 12:10

• וַנַּעֲבֹ֥דvanaavodHc/Vqw1cptagged: and we have served
• וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃venaavdekaHC/Vqu1cp/Sp2mstagged: so we may serve you

If you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and if you do not rebel against the command of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the LORD your God, then all will be well.

1 Samuel 12:14

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֤םvaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “Even though you have committed all this evil, do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

1 Samuel 12:20

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֥םvaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.

1 Samuel 12:24

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֥םvaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

If he is able to fight me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and labor for us.”

1 Samuel 17:9

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֖םvaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

1 Samuel 26:19

• עֲבֹ֖דʾavodverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: serve

You and your sons and servants are to work the ground for him and bring in the harvest, so that your master’s grandson may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, is always to eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

2 Samuel 9:10

• וְעָבַ֣דְתָּveavadtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will work

When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.

2 Samuel 10:19

• וַיַּֽעַבְד֑וּםvaiyaavdumHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they served them

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.’”

2 Samuel 15:8

• וְעָבַדְתִּ֖יveavadtiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will serve

Furthermore, whom should I serve if not the son? As I served in your father’s presence, so also I will serve in yours.”

2 Samuel 16:19

• אֶֽעֱבֹ֔דʾeevodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I serve
• עָבַ֙דְתִּי֙ʾavadtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I served

You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

2 Samuel 22:44

• יַעַבְדֻֽנִי׃yaavduniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they served me

And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

1 Kings 4:21

• וְעֹבְדִ֥יםveoedimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and serving

But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,

1 Kings 9:6

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙vaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”

1 Kings 9:9

• וַיַּעַבְדֻ֑םvaiyaavdumHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they served them

their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.

1 Kings 9:21

• עֹבֵ֔דʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: laboring

“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

1 Kings 12:4

• וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃venaavdekaHC/Vqu1cp/Sp2mstagged: and we will serve you

They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

1 Kings 12:7

• וַֽעֲבַדְתָּ֔םvaavadtamHc/Vqq2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you will serve them

And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.

1 Kings 16:31

• וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֣דvaiyaavodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he served

Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.

1 Kings 22:53

• וַֽיַּעֲבֹד֙vaiyaavodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he served

Then Jehu brought all the people together and said, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot.

2 Kings 10:18

• עָבַ֥דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he served
• יַעַבְדֶ֥נּוּyaavdenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will serve him

Now, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.

2 Kings 10:19

• עֹבְדָ֣יוʾoedavverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: serve him
• עֹבְדֵ֥יʾoedeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: serve

Then Jehu sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; there was not a man who failed to show. They entered the temple of Baal, and it was filled from end to end.

2 Kings 10:21

• עֹבְדֵ֣יʾoedeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: serve

And Jehu said to the keeper of the wardrobe, “Bring out garments for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out garments for them.

2 Kings 10:22

• עֹבְדֵ֣יʾoedeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: serve

Next, Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rechab entered the temple of Baal, and Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Look around to see that there are no servants of the LORD here among you—only servants of Baal.”

2 Kings 10:23

• לְעֹבְדֵ֣יleoedeipreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to serve
• עֹבְדֵ֥יʾoedeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: serve

They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.”

2 Kings 17:12

• וַיַּֽעַבְד֖וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.

2 Kings 17:16

• וַיַּעַבְד֖וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.

2 Kings 17:33

• עֹֽבְדִ֔יםʾoedimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: serving

For the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them; do not serve them or sacrifice to them.

2 Kings 17:35

• תַעַבְד֔וּםtaavdumverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you must serve them

So these nations worshiped the LORD but also served their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.

2 Kings 17:41

• עֹֽבְדִ֑יםʾoedimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: serving

And the LORD was with Hezekiah, and he prospered wherever he went. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to serve him.

2 Kings 18:7

• עֲבָדֽוֹ׃avadoverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he served him

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

2 Kings 21:3

• וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֖דvaiyaavodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he served

He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.

2 Kings 21:21

• וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֗דvaiyaavodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he served
• עָבַ֣דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had served

And Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”

2 Kings 25:24

• וְעִבְד֛וּveivduconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and serve

When Hadadezer’s subjects saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Arameans were unwilling to help the Ammonites anymore.

1 Chronicles 19:19

• וַיַּֽעַבְדֻ֑הוּvaiyaavduhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they served him

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

1 Chronicles 28:9

• וְעָבְדֵ֗הוּveavedehuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and serve him

Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

2 Chronicles 2:18

• לְהַעֲבִ֥ידlehaavidpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to compel to labor

But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,

2 Chronicles 7:19

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙vaavadtemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.’”

2 Chronicles 7:22

• וַיַּֽעַבְד֑וּםvaiyaavdumHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they served them

“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

2 Chronicles 10:4

• וְנַֽעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃venaavdekaHC/Vqu1cp/Sp2mstagged: and we will serve you

They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

2 Chronicles 24:18

• וַיַּֽעַבְד֥וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 30:8

• וְעִבְדוּ֙veivduconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and serve

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

2 Chronicles 33:3

• וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֖דvaiyaavodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he served

Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33:16

• לַעֲב֕וֹדlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,

2 Chronicles 33:22

• וַיַּֽעַבְדֵֽם׃vaiyaavdemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he served them

And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34:33

• וַֽיַּעֲבֵ֗דvaiyaavedHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made to serve
• לַעֲב֖וֹדlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

To the Levites who taught all Israel and were holy to the LORD, Josiah said: “Put the holy ark in the temple built by Solomon son of David king of Israel. It is not to be carried around on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel.

2 Chronicles 35:3

• עִבְדוּ֙ʾivduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: serve

For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.

Nehemiah 9:35

• עֲבָד֑וּךָʾavadukhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: they served you

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

Job 21:15

• נַֽעַבְדֶ֑נּוּnaavdenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: we will serve him

If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.

Job 36:11

• וְֽיַ֫עֲבֹ֥דוּveyaavoduHC/Vqu3mptagged: and they may serve

Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?

Job 39:9

• עָבְדֶ֑ךָʾavedekhaverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to serve you

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Psalms 2:11

• עִבְד֣וּʾivduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: serve

You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

Psalms 18:43

• יַֽעַבְדֽוּנִי׃yaavduniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they serve me

Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.

Psalms 22:30

• יַֽעַבְדֶ֑נּוּyaavdenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will serve him

May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.

Psalms 72:11

• יַֽעַבְדֽוּהוּ׃yaavduhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they will serve him

All worshipers of images are put to shame— those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!

Psalms 97:7

• עֹ֬בְדֵיoedeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: serve

Serve the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.

Psalms 100:2

• עִבְד֣וּʾivduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: serve

when peoples and kingdoms assemble to serve the LORD.

Psalms 102:22

• לַעֲבֹ֥דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

Psalms 106:36

• וַיַּעַבְד֥וּvaiyaavduHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they served

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.

Proverbs 12:11

• עֹבֵ֣דʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: works

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Proverbs 28:19

• עֹבֵ֣דʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: tills

The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

• נֶעֱבָֽד׃neevadverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has been served

The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

• הָעֹבֵ֔דhaovedthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the laborer

On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,

Isaiah 14:3

• עֻבַּד־ʾubad-verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was labored

The workers in flax will be dismayed, and the weavers of fine linen will turn pale.

Isaiah 19:9

• עֹבְדֵ֥יʾoedeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: workers of

The LORD will make Himself known to Egypt, and on that day Egypt will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and fulfill them.

Isaiah 19:21

• וְעָֽבְדוּ֙veaveduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will serve

In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.

Isaiah 19:23

• וְעָבְד֥וּveaveduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will serve

For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

Isaiah 28:21

• וְלַֽעֲבֹד֙velaavodconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to work

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

Isaiah 30:24

• עֹֽבְדֵי֙ʾoedeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: work

You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.

Isaiah 43:23

• הֶעֱבַדְתִּ֙יךָ֙heevadtikhaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have burdened you

You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

Isaiah 43:24

• הֶעֱבַדְתַּ֙נִי֙heevadtaniverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you have burdened me

For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.

Isaiah 60:12

• יַעַבְד֖וּךְyaavdukhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: they will serve you

And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”

Jeremiah 5:19

• וַתַּעַבְד֞וּvataavduHc/Vqw2mptagged: and you served
• תַּעַבְד֣וּtaavduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will serve

They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.

Jeremiah 8:2

• עֲבָדוּם֙ʾavadumverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they served them

They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 11:10

• לְעָבְדָ֑םleavedampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to serve them

These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

Jeremiah 13:10

• לְעָבְדָ֖םleavedampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to serve them

Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

Jeremiah 16:11

• וַיַּעַבְד֖וּםvaiyaavdumHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they served them

So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

Jeremiah 16:13

• וַעֲבַדְתֶּם־vaavadtem-Hc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will serve

And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”

Jeremiah 17:4

• וְהַעֲבַדְתִּ֙יךָ֙vehaavadtikhaHc/Vhq1cs/Sp2mstagged: and I will make serve you

Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”

Jeremiah 22:9

• וַיַּעַבְדֽוּם׃ סvaiyaavdumHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they served them

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

Jeremiah 22:13

• יַעֲבֹ֣דyaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he works

Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’

Jeremiah 25:6

• לְעָבְדָ֖םleavedampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to serve them

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:11

• וְעָ֨בְד֜וּveaveduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will serve

For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”

Jeremiah 25:14

• עָֽבְדוּ־ʾavedu-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will work

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 27:6

• לְעָבְדֽוֹ׃leavedopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to serve him

All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Jeremiah 27:7

• וְעָבְד֤וּveaveduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will serve
• וְעָ֤בְדוּveaveduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will work

As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.

Jeremiah 27:8

• יַעַבְד֤וּyaavduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will serve

But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

Jeremiah 27:9

• תַעַבְד֖וּtaavduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will serve

But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”

Jeremiah 27:11

• וַֽעֲבָד֑וֹvaavadoHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3mstagged: and it will serve him
• וַֽעֲבָדָ֖הּvaavadahHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3fstagged: and it will work it

And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!

Jeremiah 27:12

• וְעִבְד֥וּveivduconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and serve

Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 27:13

• יַעֲבֹ֖דyaavodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will serve

Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say, ‘You must not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they are prophesying to you a lie.

Jeremiah 27:14

• תַעַבְד֖וּtaavduverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will serve

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

Jeremiah 27:17

• עִבְד֥וּʾivduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: serve

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.’”

Jeremiah 28:14

• לַעֲבֹ֛דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve
• וַעֲבָדֻ֑הוּvaavaduhuHc/Vqq3cp/Sp3mstagged: and they will serve him

On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.

Jeremiah 30:8

• יַעַבְדוּ־yaavdu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will work

Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

Jeremiah 30:9

• וְעָ֣בְד֔וּveaveduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will serve

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

Jeremiah 34:9

• עֲבָד־ʾavod-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to work

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 34:10

• עֲבָד־ʾavod-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to work

Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.

Jeremiah 34:14

• וַעֲבָֽדְךָ֙vaavadekhaHc/Vqq3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he will serve you

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 35:15

• לְעָבְדָ֔םleavedampreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to serve them

Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.

Jeremiah 40:9

• מֵעֲב֣וֹדmeavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from serving
• וְעִבְד֛וּveivduconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and serve

because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.

Jeremiah 44:3

• לַעֲבֹ֖דlaavodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.

Ezekiel 20:39

• עֲבֹ֔דוּʾavoduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: serve

For on My holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land. There I will accept them and will require your offerings and choice gifts, along with all your holy sacrifices.

Ezekiel 20:40

• יַעַבְדֻ֜נִיyaavduniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they will serve me

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.

Ezekiel 29:18

• הֶעֱבִ֨ידheevidverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made to labor
• עָבַ֥דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had labored

I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his labor, because it was done for Me, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 29:20

• עָ֣בַדʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he served

The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from the hands that enslaved them.

Ezekiel 34:27

• הָעֹבְדִ֥יםhaoedimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those labored

For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

Ezekiel 36:9

• וְנֶעֱבַדְתֶּ֖םveneevadtemHc/VNq2mptagged: and you will be tilled

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.

Ezekiel 36:34

• תֵּֽעָבֵ֑דteavedverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be tilled

The remainder of the length bordering the holy portion and running adjacent to it will be 10,000 cubits on the east side and 10,000 cubits on the west side. Its produce will supply food for the workers of the city.

Ezekiel 48:18

• לְעֹבְדֵ֖יleoedeipreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for workers of

The workers of the city who cultivate it will come from all the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 48:19

• וְהָעֹבֵ֖דvehaovedconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the worker
• יַעַבְד֕וּהוּyaavduhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they will serve it

Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.

Hosea 12:12

• וַיַּעֲבֹ֤דvaiyaavodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he served

For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.

Zephaniah 3:9

• לְעָבְד֖וֹleavedopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to serve him

He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for I was purchased as a servant in my youth.’

Zechariah 13:5

• עֹבֵ֤דʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: tills

You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

Malachi 3:14

• עֲבֹ֣דʾavodverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to serve

“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Malachi 3:17

• הָעֹבֵ֥דhaovedthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: who serves

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

Malachi 3:18

• עֹבֵ֣דʾovedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: serves
• עֲבָדֽוֹ׃ סavadoverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he serves him