Word Study · Strong's H8120 · Hebrew
שְׁמַשׁ
shemash
shem-ash'
Strong's 1890 spelling: shᵉmash
“to serve”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
to serve
Rendered in the KJV as
minister.
- 1occurrencein the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 1inflected formdistinct spellings
Across 1 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 1
- יְשַׁמְּשׁוּנֵּ֔הּ1
How it is rendered · 1
- they were ministering to him1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- verb · intensive (piel), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1
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- AVpi3mp/Sp3ms · 1
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