Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H5649
עֲבַד
abadab-bad'
servant/slave
7 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 H5649is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5649
a servant
The King James renders it: servant.
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 "servant/slave". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:11(This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates:
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
(This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates:
Ezra 4:11עַבְדָ֛ךְ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- servants his2
- obj. servants his1
- servant of1
- servant your1
- to servant your1
- to servants his1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- לְעַבְד֖וֹהִי1
- לְעַבְד֔וֹהִי1
- לְעַבְדָ֖ךְ1
- עֲבֵד֙1
- עַבְד֛וֹהִי1
- עַבְדוֹהִי֩1
- עַבְדָ֛ךְ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2ANcmpc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2AR/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1ANcbsc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1ANcmpc/Sp2ms
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1AR/Ncbsc/Sp2ms
Ezra
two uses
(This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates:
- עַבְדָ֛ךְavdayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: servant your
And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.
- עַבְדוֹהִי֩avdohinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: servants his
Daniel
five uses
Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
- לְעַבְדָ֖ךְleavdayikhpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to servant your
They answered a second time, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will give the interpretation.”
- לְעַבְד֖וֹהִיleavdohipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to servants his
Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the blazing fiery furnace and called out, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire,
- עַבְד֛וֹהִיavdohinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: servants his
Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
- לְעַבְד֔וֹהִיleavdohipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: obj. servants his
When he reached the den, he cried out in a voice of anguish, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”
- עֲבֵד֙ʾavednoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: servant of
Where it leads
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 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.