: 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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H5647 — עָבַד
a.vad · to serve · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 2:5 · לַֽעֲבֹ֖דNo plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,Genesis 2:15 · לְעָבְדָ֖הּYahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.Genesis 3:23 · לַֽעֲבֹד֙Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.Genesis 4:2 · עֹבֵ֥דAgain she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.Genesis 4:12 · תַֽעֲבֹד֙From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”Genesis 14:4 · עָבְד֖וּTwelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.Genesis 15:13 · וַעֲבָד֖וּםHe said to Abram, “Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.Genesis 15:14 · יַעֲבֹ֖דוּI will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,Genesis 25:23 · יַעֲבֹ֥דYahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”Genesis 27:29 · יַֽעַבְד֣וּךָLet peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”Genesis 27:40 · תַּעֲבֹ֑דBy your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”Genesis 29:15 · וַעֲבַדְתַּ֖נִיLaban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”Genesis 29:18 · אֶֽעֱבָדְךָ֙Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”Genesis 29:20 · וַיַּעֲבֹ֧דJacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.Genesis 29:25 · עָבַ֣דְתִּיIt happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”Genesis 29:27 · תַּעֲבֹ֣דFulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”Genesis 29:30 · וַיַּעֲבֹ֣דHe went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.Genesis 30:26 · עָבַ֧דְתִּי · עֲבַדְתִּֽיךָ׃Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”Genesis 30:29 · עֲבַדְתִּ֑יךָHe said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.Genesis 31:6 · עָבַ֖דְתִּיYou know that I have served your father with all of my strength.Genesis 31:41 · עֲבַדְתִּ֜יךָThese twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.Genesis 49:15 · עֹבֵֽד׃ סHe saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.Exodus 1:13 · וַיַּעֲבִ֧דוּThe Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,Exodus 1:14 · עָבְד֥וּand they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.Exodus 3:12 · תַּֽעַבְדוּן֙He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”Exodus 4:23 · וְיַֽעַבְדֵ֔נִיand I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.’”Exodus 5:18 · עִבְד֔וּGo therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”Exodus 6:5 · מַעֲבִדִ֣יםMoreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.Exodus 7:16 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻ֖נִיYou shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:” and behold, until now you haven’t listened.Exodus 8:1 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, “This is what Yahweh says, ‘Let my people go, that they may serve me.Exodus 8:20 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.Exodus 9:1 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.Exodus 9:13 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.Exodus 10:3 · וְיַֽעַבְדֻֽנִי׃Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.Exodus 10:7 · וְיַֽעַבְד֖וּPharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”Exodus 10:8 · עִבְד֖וּMoses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?”Exodus 10:11 · וְעִבְד֣וּNot so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” They were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.Exodus 10:24 · עִבְד֣וּPharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you.”Exodus 10:26 · לַעֲבֹ֖ד · נַּעֲבֹד֙Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there.”Exodus 12:31 · עִבְד֥וּHe called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!Exodus 13:5 · וְעָבַדְתָּ֛It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.Exodus 14:5 · מֵעָבְדֵֽנוּ׃It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”Exodus 14:12 · וְנַֽעַבְדָ֣ה · עֲבֹ֣דIsn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.”Exodus 20:5 · תָעָבְדֵ֑ם֒you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,Exodus 20:9 · תַּֽעֲבֹ֔ד֮You shall labor six days, and do all your work,Exodus 21:2 · יַעֲבֹ֑ד“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.Exodus 21:6 · וַעֲבָד֖וֹthen his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.Exodus 23:24 · תָֽעָבְדֵ֔םYou shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.Exodus 23:25 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֗םYou shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.Exodus 23:33 · תַעֲבֹד֙They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”Exodus 34:21 · תַּעֲבֹ֔ד“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.Leviticus 25:39 · תַעֲבֹ֥ד“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.Leviticus 25:40 · יַעֲבֹ֥דAs a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:Leviticus 25:46 · תַּעֲבֹ֑דוּYou may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.Numbers 3:7 · לַעֲבֹ֖דThey shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.Numbers 3:8 · לַעֲבֹ֖דThey shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.Numbers 4:23 · לַעֲבֹ֥דyou shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 4:24 · לַעֲבֹ֖ד“This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:Numbers 4:26 · וְעָבָֽדוּ׃and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. Therein shall they serve.Numbers 4:30 · לַעֲבֹ֕דyou shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 4:37 · הָעֹבֵ֖דThese are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.Numbers 4:41 · הָעֹבֵ֖דThese are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh.Numbers 4:47 · לַעֲבֹ֨דfrom thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,Numbers 7:5 · לַעֲבֹ֕ד“Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.”Numbers 8:11 · לַעֲבֹ֖דand Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.Numbers 8:15 · לַעֲבֹ֖ד“After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.Numbers 8:19 · לַעֲבֹ֞דI have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”Numbers 8:22 · לַעֲבֹ֤דAfter that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.Numbers 8:25 · יַעֲבֹ֖דand from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,Numbers 8:26 · יַעֲבֹ֑דbut shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall do no service. You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their duties.”Numbers 16:9 · לַעֲבֹ֗דIs it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;Numbers 18:6 · לַעֲבֹ֕דI, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 18:7 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֑םYou and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”Numbers 18:21 · עֹֽבְדִ֔ים“To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 18:23 · וְעָבַ֨דBut the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.Deuteronomy 4:19 · וַעֲבַדְתָּ֑םand lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.Deuteronomy 4:28 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּם־There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.Deuteronomy 5:9 · תָעָבְדֵ֑ם֒you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;Deuteronomy 5:13 · תַּֽעֲבֹ֔ד֮You shall labor six days, and do all your work;Deuteronomy 6:13 · תַעֲבֹ֑דYou shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.Deuteronomy 7:4 · וְעָבְד֖וּFor he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.Deuteronomy 7:16 · תַעֲבֹד֙You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.Deuteronomy 8:19 · וַעֲבַדְתָּ֖םIt shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.Deuteronomy 10:12 · וְלַֽעֲבֹד֙Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,Deuteronomy 10:20 · תַעֲבֹ֑דYou shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.Deuteronomy 11:13 · וּלְעָבְד֔וֹIt shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,Deuteronomy 11:16 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;Deuteronomy 12:2 · עָֽבְדוּ־You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:Deuteronomy 12:30 · יַעַבְד֜וּtake heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”Deuteronomy 13:2 · וְנָֽעָבְדֵֽם׃and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let us serve them;”Deuteronomy 13:4 · תַעֲבֹ֖דוּYou shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.Deuteronomy 13:6 · וְנַֽעַבְדָה֙If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;Deuteronomy 13:13 · וְנַעַבְדָ֛הCertain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known;Deuteronomy 15:12 · וַעֲבָֽדְךָ֖If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.Deuteronomy 15:18 · עֲבָֽדְךָ֖It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.Deuteronomy 15:19 · תַעֲבֹד֙All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.Deuteronomy 17:3 · וַֽיַּעֲבֹד֙and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;Deuteronomy 20:11 · וַעֲבָדֽוּךָ׃It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.Deuteronomy 21:3 · עֻבַּד֙and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;Deuteronomy 21:4 · יֵעָבֵ֥דand the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.Deuteronomy 28:14 · לְעָבְדָֽם׃ סand shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.Deuteronomy 28:36 · וְעָבַ֥דְתָּYahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.Deuteronomy 28:39 · וְעָבָ֑דְתָּYou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor harvest; for the worm shall eat them.Deuteronomy 28:47 · עָבַ֙דְתָּ֙Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;Deuteronomy 28:48 · וְעָבַדְתָּ֣therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.Deuteronomy 28:64 · וְעָבַ֨דְתָּYahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.Deuteronomy 29:18 · לַעֲבֹ֔דlest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;Deuteronomy 29:26 · וַיַּֽעַבְדוּ֙and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know, and that he had not given to them:Deuteronomy 30:17 · וַעֲבַדְתָּֽם׃But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;Deuteronomy 31:20 · וַעֲבָד֔וּםFor when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.Joshua 16:10 · עֹבֵֽד׃ פThey didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.Joshua 22:5 · וּלְעָבְד֕וֹOnly take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh 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 · לַעֲבֹ֞דbut it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in Yahweh.’Joshua 23:7 · תַעַבְד֔וּםthat you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;Joshua 23:16 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”Joshua 24:2 · וַיַּעַבְד֖וּJoshua said to all the people, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.Joshua 24:14 · וְעִבְד֥וּ · עָבְד֨וּ · וְעִבְד֖וּ“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.Joshua 24:15 · לַעֲבֹ֣ד · תַעֲבֹדוּן֒ · עָבְד֣וּ · נַעֲבֹ֖דIf it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”Joshua 24:16 · לַעֲבֹ֖דThe people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;Joshua 24:18 · נַעֲבֹ֣דYahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”Joshua 24:19 · לַעֲבֹ֣דJoshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.Joshua 24:20 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֖םIf you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”Joshua 24:21 · נַעֲבֹֽד׃The people said to Joshua, “No; but we will serve Yahweh.”Joshua 24:22 · לַעֲבֹ֣דJoshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”Joshua 24:24 · נַעֲבֹ֔דThe people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”Joshua 24:31 · וַיַּעֲבֹ֤דIsrael served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.Judges 2:7 · וַיַּעַבְד֤וּThe people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.Judges 2:11 · וַיַּעַבְד֖וּThe children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals;Judges 2:13 · וַיַּעַבְד֥וּThey forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.Judges 2:19 · לְעָבְדָ֖םBut it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn’t cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.Judges 3:6 · וַיַּעַבְד֖וּand they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.Judges 3:7 · וַיַּעַבְד֥וּThe children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.Judges 3:8 · וַיַּעַבְד֧וּTherefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.Judges 3:14 · וַיַּעַבְד֤וּThe children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.Judges 9:28 · נַעַבְדֶ֔נּוּ · עִבְד֗וּ · נַעַבְדֶ֥נּוּGaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but why should we serve him?Judges 9:38 · נַעַבְדֶ֑נּוּThen Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”Judges 10:6 · וַיַּעַבְד֣וּ · עֲבָדֽוּהוּ׃The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.Judges 10:10 · וַֽנַּעֲבֹ֖דThe children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”Judges 10:13 · וַתַּעַבְד֖וּYet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will save you no more.Judges 10:16 · וַיַּעַבְד֖וּThey put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.1 Samuel 4:9 · תַּעַבְד֣וּ · עָבְד֖וּBe strong, and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”1 Samuel 7:3 · וְעִבְדֻ֣הוּSamuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”1 Samuel 7:4 · וַיַּעַבְד֥וּThen the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.1 Samuel 8:8 · וַיַּעַבְד֖וּAccording to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.1 Samuel 11:1 · וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”1 Samuel 12:10 · וַנַּעֲבֹ֥ד · וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃They cried to Yahweh, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’1 Samuel 12:14 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֤םIf you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.1 Samuel 12:20 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֥םSamuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.1 Samuel 12:24 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֥םOnly fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he has done for you.1 Samuel 17:9 · וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֖םIf he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then you will be our servants, and serve us.”
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