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H5647 — עָבַד

a.vad · to serve · Hebrew/Aramaic

: serve[someone] 1) to work, serve 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to labour, work, do work 1a2) to work for another, serve another by labour 1a3) to serve as subjects 1a4) to serve (God) 1a5) to serve (with Levitical service) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be worked, be tilled (of land) 1b2) to make oneself a servant 1c) (Pual) to be worked 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to compel to labour or work, cause to labour, cause to serve 1d2) to cause to serve as subjects 1e) (Hophal) to be led or enticed to serve

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Genesis 2:5 · לַֽעֲבֹ֖דNow 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.Genesis 2:15 · לְעָבְדָ֖הּThen the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.Genesis 3:23 · לַֽעֲבֹד֙Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.Genesis 4:2 · עֹבֵ֥דLater she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.Genesis 4:12 · תַֽעֲבֹד֙When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”Genesis 14:4 · עָבְד֖וּFor twelve years they had been subject to Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.Genesis 15:13 · וַעֲבָד֖וּםThen 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.Genesis 15:14 · יַעֲבֹ֖דוּBut I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.Genesis 25:23 · יַעֲבֹ֥דand 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.”Genesis 27:29 · יַֽעַבְד֣וּךָMay 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.”Genesis 27:40 · תַּעֲבֹ֑דYou shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”Genesis 29:15 · וַעֲבַדְתַּ֖נִיLaban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”Genesis 29:18 · אֶֽעֱבָדְךָ֙Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”Genesis 29:20 · וַיַּעֲבֹ֧דSo Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.Genesis 29:25 · עָבַ֣דְתִּיWhen morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”Genesis 29:27 · תַּעֲבֹ֣דFinish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”Genesis 29:30 · וַיַּעֲבֹ֣דJacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.Genesis 30:26 · עָבַ֧דְתִּי · עֲבַדְתִּֽיךָ׃Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”Genesis 30:29 · עֲבַדְתִּ֑יךָThen Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.Genesis 31:6 · עָבַ֖דְתִּיYou know that I have served your father with all my strength.Genesis 31:41 · עֲבַדְתִּ֜יךָThus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!Genesis 49:15 · עֹבֵֽד׃ סHe saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.Exodus 1:13 · וַיַּעֲבִ֧דוּThey worked the Israelites ruthlesslyExodus 1:14 · עָבְד֥וּand made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.Exodus 3:12 · תַּֽעַבְדוּן֙“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”Exodus 4:23 · וְיַֽעַבְדֵ֔נִיand I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”Exodus 5:18 · עִבְד֔וּNow get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”Exodus 6:5 · מַעֲבִדִ֣יםFurthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.Exodus 7:16 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻ֖נִיThen say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened.Exodus 8:1 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.Exodus 8:20 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, and when Pharaoh goes out to the water, stand before him and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.Exodus 9:1 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.Exodus 9:13 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.Exodus 10:3 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.Exodus 10:7 · וְיַֽעַבְד֖וּPharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”Exodus 10:8 · עִבְד֖וּSo Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will be going?”Exodus 10:11 · וְעִבְד֣וּNo, only the men may go and worship the LORD, since that is what you have been requesting.” And Moses and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.Exodus 10:24 · עִבְד֣וּThen Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your little ones may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”Exodus 10:26 · לַעֲבֹ֖ד · נַּעֲבֹד֙Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, for we will need some of them to worship the LORD our God, and we will not know how we are to worship the LORD until we arrive.”Exodus 12:31 · עִבְד֥וּThen Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.Exodus 13:5 · וְעָבַדְתָּ֛And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.Exodus 14:5 · מֵעָבְדֵֽנוּ׃When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”Exodus 14:12 · וְנַֽעַבְדָ֣ה · עֲבֹ֣דDid we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”Exodus 20:5 · תָעָבְדֵ֑ם֒You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,Exodus 20:9 · תַּֽעֲבֹ֔ד֮Six days you shall labor and do all your work,Exodus 21:2 · יַעֲבֹ֑דIf you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.Exodus 21:6 · וַעֲבָד֖וֹthen his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.Exodus 23:24 · תָֽעָבְדֵ֔םYou must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.Exodus 23:25 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֗םSo you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.Exodus 23:33 · תַעֲבֹד֙They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”Exodus 34:21 · תַּעֲבֹ֔דSix days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.Leviticus 25:39 · תַעֲבֹ֥דIf a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.Leviticus 25:40 · יַעֲבֹ֥דLet him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.Leviticus 25:46 · תַּעֲבֹ֑דוּYou may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.Numbers 3:7 · לַעֲבֹ֖דThey are to perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, attending to the service of the tabernacle.Numbers 3:8 · לַעֲבֹ֖דThey shall take care of all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and fulfill obligations for the Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.Numbers 4:23 · לַעֲבֹ֥דfrom thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 4:24 · לַעֲבֹ֖דThis is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transport:Numbers 4:26 · וְעָבָֽדוּ׃the curtains of the courtyard, and the curtains for the entrance at the gate of the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and altar, along with their ropes and all the equipment for their service. The Gershonites will do all that needs to be done with these items.Numbers 4:30 · לַעֲבֹ֕דfrom thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work of the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 4:37 · הָעֹבֵ֖דThese were counted from the Kohathite clans, everyone who could serve at the Tent of Meeting. Moses and Aaron numbered them according to the command of the LORD through Moses.Numbers 4:41 · הָעֹבֵ֖דThese were counted from the Gershonite clans who served at the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the LORD’s command.Numbers 4:47 · לַעֲבֹ֨דfrom thirty to fifty years old who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 7:5 · לַעֲבֹ֕ד“Accept these gifts from them, that they may be used in the work of the Tent of Meeting. And give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”Numbers 8:11 · לַעֲבֹ֖דAaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, so that they may perform the service of the LORD.Numbers 8:15 · לַעֲבֹ֖דAfter you have cleansed them and presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 8:19 · לַעֲבֹ֞דAnd I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to perform the service for the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary.”Numbers 8:22 · לַעֲבֹ֤דAfter that, the Levites came to perform their service at the Tent of Meeting in the presence of Aaron and his sons. Thus they did with the Levites just as the LORD had commanded Moses.Numbers 8:25 · יַעֲבֹ֖דBut at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.Numbers 8:26 · יַעֲבֹ֑דAfter that, they may assist their brothers in fulfilling their duties at the Tent of Meeting, but they themselves are not to do the work. This is how you are to assign responsibilities to the Levites.”Numbers 16:9 · לַעֲבֹ֗דIs it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?Numbers 18:6 · לַעֲבֹ֕דBehold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 18:7 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֑םBut only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”Numbers 18:21 · עֹֽבְדִ֔יםBehold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 18:23 · וְעָבַ֨דThe Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.Deuteronomy 4:19 · וַעֲבַדְתָּ֑םWhen you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.Deuteronomy 4:28 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּם־And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.Deuteronomy 5:9 · תָעָבְדֵ֑ם֒You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,Deuteronomy 5:13 · תַּֽעֲבֹ֔ד֮Six days you shall labor and do all your work,Deuteronomy 6:13 · תַעֲבֹ֑דFear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.Deuteronomy 7:4 · וְעָבְד֖וּbecause they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.Deuteronomy 7:16 · תַעֲבֹד֙You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.Deuteronomy 8:19 · וַעֲבַדְתָּ֖םIf you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.Deuteronomy 10:12 · וְלַֽעֲבֹד֙And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,Deuteronomy 10:20 · תַעֲבֹ֑דYou are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.Deuteronomy 11:13 · וּלְעָבְד֔וֹSo if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,Deuteronomy 11:16 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,Deuteronomy 12:2 · עָֽבְדוּ־Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.Deuteronomy 12:30 · יַעַבְד֜וּbe careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”Deuteronomy 13:2 · וְנָֽעָבְדֵֽם׃and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”Deuteronomy 13:4 · תַעֲבֹ֖דוּYou are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.Deuteronomy 13:6 · וְנַֽעַבְדָה֙If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,Deuteronomy 13:13 · וְנַעַבְדָ֛הthat wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),Deuteronomy 15:12 · וַעֲבָֽדְךָ֖If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.Deuteronomy 15:18 · עֲבָֽדְךָ֖Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.Deuteronomy 15:19 · תַעֲבֹד֙You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.Deuteronomy 17:3 · וַֽיַּעֲבֹד֙and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—Deuteronomy 20:11 · וַעֲבָדֽוּךָ׃If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.Deuteronomy 21:3 · עֻבַּד֙Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,Deuteronomy 21:4 · יֵעָבֵ֥דbring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.Deuteronomy 28:14 · לְעָבְדָֽם׃ סDo not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.Deuteronomy 28:36 · וְעָבַ֥דְתָּThe LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.Deuteronomy 28:39 · וְעָבָ֑דְתָּYou will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.Deuteronomy 28:47 · עָבַ֙דְתָּ֙Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,Deuteronomy 28:48 · וְעָבַדְתָּ֣you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.Deuteronomy 28:64 · וְעָבַ֨דְתָּThen the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.Deuteronomy 29:18 · לַעֲבֹ֔דMake sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,Deuteronomy 29:26 · וַיַּֽעַבְדוּ֙They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.Deuteronomy 30:17 · וַעֲבַדְתָּֽם׃But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,Deuteronomy 31:20 · וַעֲבָד֔וּםWhen I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.Joshua 16:10 · עֹבֵֽד׃ פBut they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.Joshua 22:5 · וּלְעָבְד֕וֹBut be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”Joshua 22:27 · לַעֲבֹ֞דRather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD!’Joshua 23:7 · תַעַבְד֔וּםSo you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.Joshua 23:16 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”Joshua 24:2 · וַיַּעַבְד֖וּAnd Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.Joshua 24:14 · וְעִבְד֥וּ · עָבְד֨וּ · וְעִבְד֖וּNow, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.Joshua 24:15 · לַעֲבֹ֣ד · תַעֲבֹדוּן֒ · עָבְד֣וּ · נַעֲבֹ֖דBut if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”Joshua 24:16 · לַעֲבֹ֖דThe people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!Joshua 24:18 · נַעֲבֹ֣דAnd the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”Joshua 24:19 · לַעֲבֹ֣דBut Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.Joshua 24:20 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֖םIf you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”Joshua 24:21 · נַעֲבֹֽד׃“No!” replied the people. “We will serve the LORD!”Joshua 24:22 · לַעֲבֹ֣דThen Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.Joshua 24:24 · נַעֲבֹ֔דSo the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”Joshua 24:31 · וַיַּעֲבֹ֤דIsrael had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.Judges 2:7 · וַיַּעַבְד֤וּAnd the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.Judges 2:11 · וַיַּעַבְד֖וּAnd the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.Judges 2:13 · וַיַּעַבְד֥וּfor they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.Judges 2:19 · לְעָבְדָ֖םBut when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.Judges 3:6 · וַיַּעַבְד֖וּAnd they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.Judges 3:7 · וַיַּעַבְד֥וּSo the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.Judges 3:8 · וַיַּעַבְד֧וּThen the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.Judges 3:14 · וַיַּעַבְד֤וּThe Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.Judges 9:28 · נַעַבְדֶ֔נּוּ · עִבְד֗וּ · נַעַבְדֶ֥נּוּThen Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why should we serve Abimelech?Judges 9:38 · נַעַבְדֶ֑נּוּ“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”Judges 10:6 · וַיַּעַבְד֣וּ · עֲבָדֽוּהוּ׃And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.Judges 10:10 · וַֽנַּעֲבֹ֖דThen the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”Judges 10:13 · וַתַּעַבְד֖וּBut you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.Judges 10:16 · וַיַּעַבְד֖וּSo they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.1 Samuel 4:9 · תַּעַבְד֣וּ · עָבְד֖וּTake courage and be men, O Philistines! Otherwise, you will serve the Hebrews just as they served you. Now be men and fight!”1 Samuel 7:3 · וְעִבְדֻ֣הוּThen Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”1 Samuel 7:4 · וַיַּעַבְד֥וּSo the Israelites put away the Baals and Ashtoreths and served only the LORD.1 Samuel 8:8 · וַיַּעַבְד֖וּJust as they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking Me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.1 Samuel 11:1 · וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”1 Samuel 12:10 · וַנַּעֲבֹ֥ד · וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃Then they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, that we may serve You.’1 Samuel 12:14 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֤םIf you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and if you do not rebel against the command of the LORD, and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the LORD your God, then all will be well.1 Samuel 12:20 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֥ם“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “Even though you have committed all this evil, do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.1 Samuel 12:24 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֥םAbove all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.1 Samuel 17:9 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֖םIf he is able to fight me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and work for us.”

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