Strong's Hebrew · H5650

H5650 ʻebed

עֶבֶד

eh'-bed

servant/slave

ʻebed appears 799 times in Scripture, including Genesis 9:25 and Exodus 8:3. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a servant

In the King James Version

× bondage, bondman, (bond-) servant, (man-) servant.

Derivation

from H5647 (עָבַד);

Appears 799 times in Scripture

Genesis 9:25

“he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.””

Genesis 9:27

“May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.””

Genesis 32:16

“He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.””

Genesis 26:32

“On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.”

Genesis 9:26

“He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.”

Exodus 8:3

“The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.”

Genesis 12:16

“He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.”

Exodus 8:4

“The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’””

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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Strong's concordance glosses from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0). Scripture quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain.

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