Strong's Hebrew · H5647
עָבַד
ʻâbad · aw-bad'
[idiom] be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, [phrase] husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
Definition
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 288 times in Scripture
“Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.”
“Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.”
“For twelve years they had been subject to Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.”
“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.”
“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.””
“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.”
“Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.”
“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.””
“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.””
“But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).