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Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H5648

עֲבַד

abadab-bad'

to make

28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻăbad

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5648is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 3 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 27
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5648

to do, make, prepare, keep, etc.

The King James renders it: [idiom] cut, do, execute, go on, make, move, work.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

abad is rendered "to make". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.

  • Fifteen of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:15that a search should be made of the record books of your fathers. In these books you will discover and verify that the city is a rebellious city, harmful to kings and provinces, inciting sedition from ancient times. That is why this city was destroyed.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-seven different ways.

The first use

that a search should be made of the record books of your fathers. In these books you will discover and verify that the city is a rebellious city, harmful to kings and provinces, inciting sedition from ancient times. That is why this city was destroyed.

Ezra 4:15עָבְדִ֣ין

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Fifteen of the word's twenty-eight uses are in Ezra.

The other 36 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • doing3
  • let it be done3
  • he made2
  • making2
  • to do2
  • you will do2
  • and doing1
  • and they made1
  • been done1
  • being done1
  • done1
  • have you done1

and 8 more, 28 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

עֲבַרabarbeyondUses14
עֲבַדabadservant/slaveUses7

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 28, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

27 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • עֲבַד֙2
  • וְעָבֵד֙1
  • וַעֲבַ֣דוּ1
  • יִתְעֲבֵ֔ד1
  • יִתְעֲבֵ֖ד1
  • יִתְעֲבֵד֙1
  • יִתְעֲבִֽד׃1
  • יִתְעֲבִֽד׃ פ1
  • לְמֶעְבַּ֣ד1
  • לְמֶעְבַּ֑ד1
  • מִתְעֲבֵ֖ד1
  • מִתְעֲבֶד־1

and 15 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5AVui3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3AVqp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular3AVqrmsa
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2AR/Vqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural2AVqi2mp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2AVqp1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2AVqp3mp
  • verb · hothpaal, participle · masculine singular2AVurmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AC/Vqp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1AC/Vqrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1AVqp2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular1AVqrfsa

Ezra

fifteen uses
  • that a search should be made of the record books of your fathers. In these books you will discover and verify that the city is a rebellious city, harmful to kings and provinces, inciting sedition from ancient times. That is why this city was destroyed.

    Ezra 4:15

    • עָבְדִ֣יןʾavedinverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: making
  • I issued a decree, and a search was conducted. It was discovered that this city has revolted against kings from ancient times, engaging in rebellion and sedition.

    Ezra 4:19

    • מִתְעֲבֶד־mitaved-verb · hothpaal, participle · masculine singulartagged: been done
  • See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?

    Ezra 4:22

    • לְמֶעְבַּ֣דleme'badpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do
  • Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. The people are rebuilding it with large stones, and placing timbers in the walls. This work is being carried out diligently and is prospering in their hands.

    Ezra 5:8

    • מִתְעַבְדָ֖אmitavda'verb · hothpaal, participle · feminine singulartagged: being done
  • I hereby decree what you must do for these elders of the Jews who are rebuilding this house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces west of the Euphrates, so that the work will not be hindered.

    Ezra 6:8

    • תַֽעַבְד֗וּןtaavdunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will do
  • I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.

    Ezra 6:11

    • יִתְעֲבֵ֖דyitavedverb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it be made
  • May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out with diligence.

    Ezra 6:12

    • יִתְעֲבִֽד׃ פyitavidverb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it be done
  • In response, Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates diligently carried out what King Darius had decreed.

    Ezra 6:13

    • עֲבַֽדוּ׃ʾavaduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they did
  • Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.

    Ezra 6:16

    • וַעֲבַ֣דוּvaavaduconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and they made
  • You and your brothers may do whatever seems best with the rest of the silver and gold, according to the will of your God.

    Ezra 7:18

    • לְמֶעְבַּ֑דleme'badpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do
    • תַּעַבְדֽוּן׃taavdunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will do
  • I, King Artaxerxes, decree to all the treasurers west of the Euphrates: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, may require of you, it must be provided promptly,

    Ezra 7:21

    • יִתְעֲבִֽד׃yitavidverb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it be done
  • Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven must be done diligently for His house. For why should wrath fall on the realm of the king and his sons?

    Ezra 7:23

    • יִתְעֲבֵד֙yitavedverb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it be done
  • If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.

    Ezra 7:26

    • עָבֵ֜דʾavedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: doing
    • מִתְעֲבֵ֖דmitavedverb · hothpaal, participle · masculine singulartagged: done

Jeremiah

one use
  • Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”

    Jeremiah 10:11

    • עֲבַ֑דוּʾavaduverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they made

Daniel

twelve uses
  • The king replied to the astrologers, “My word is final: If you do not tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut into pieces and your houses will be reduced to rubble.

    Daniel 2:5

    • תִּתְעַבְד֔וּןtitavdunverb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will be made
  • King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

    Daniel 3:1

    • עֲבַד֙ʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made
  • Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”

    Daniel 3:15

    • עַבְדֵת֒ʾavdetverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have made
  • Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”

    Daniel 3:29

    • יִתְעֲבֵ֔דyitavedverb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be made
  • I am pleased to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.

    Daniel 4:2

    • עֲבַ֣דʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has done
  • All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

    Daniel 4:35

    • עָבֵד֙ʾavedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: doing
    • עֲבַֽדְתְּ׃ʾavadtverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have you done
  • Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

    Daniel 5:1

    • עֲבַד֙ʾavadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made
  • Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

    Daniel 6:10

    • עָבֵ֔דʾavedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: doing
  • My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”

    Daniel 6:22

    • עַבְדֵֽת׃ʾavdetverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have done
  • He delivers and rescues; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”

    Daniel 6:27

    • וְעָבֵד֙veavedconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and doing
  • As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and prevailing against them,

    Daniel 7:21

    • עָבְדָ֥הʾavedahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: making

The letters

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How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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