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Lexicon :: Strong's H5650 - ʿeḇeḏ

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עֶבֶד
Transliteration
ʿeḇeḏ
Pronunciation
eh'-bed
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1553a

Strong’s Definitions

עֶבֶד ʻebed, eh'-bed; from H5647; a servant:—× bondage, bondman, (bond-) servant, (man-) servant.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 800x

The KJV translates Strong's H5650 in the following manner: servant (744x), manservant (23x), bondman (21x), bondage (10x), bondservant (1x), on all sides (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 800x
The KJV translates Strong's H5650 in the following manner: servant (744x), manservant (23x), bondman (21x), bondage (10x), bondservant (1x), on all sides (1x).
  1. slave, servant

    1. slave, servant, man-servant

    2. subjects

    3. servants, worshippers (of God)

    4. servant (in special sense as prophets, Levites etc)

    5. servant (of Israel)

    6. servant (as form of address between equals)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶבֶד ʻebed, eh'-bed; from H5647; a servant:—× bondage, bondman, (bond-) servant, (man-) servant.
STRONGS H5650: Abbreviations
I. עֶ֫בֶד 799 noun masculine slave, servant (on formation LagBN 77); — ע׳ Genesis 9:25 +, עָ֑בֶד Genesis 44:10 +; suffix עַבְדִּי Genesis 26:24 +; עַבְדְּךָ Genesis 19:19 +; עַבְדֶּ֫ךָ Genesis 18:3 +; plural עֲבָדִים Genesis 9:25 +, עַבְדֵי Genesis 21:25 +, suffix עֲבָדַי Leviticus 25:42 +, עַבְדֵיכֶם Joshua 9:11 +, etc.; —
1. slave, servant of household Genesis 39:17, 19; Genesis 41:12; Genesis 50:2; Exodus 21:2 +; man-servant, || אמה Exodus 20:10; Leviticus 25:6; Deuteronomy 5:14; Job 31:13 +; || שׁפחה Genesis 12:16; Genesis 32:6 [Genesis 32:5; Jeremiah 34:11; Isaiah 14:2 +; + אדון Deuteronomy 23:16; Isaiah 24:2; Malachi 1:6 +; מִקְנַת כֶּסֶף Exodus 12:44 or יְלִיד בַּיִת Jeremiah 2:14; עֶבֶד עֲבָדִים servant of servants, humblest servant, Genesis 9:25; † בֵּית עֲבָדִים house of slaves, especially Israel in Egypt Exodus 13:3, 14 (D ?) Deuteronomy 5:6; Deuteronomy 6:12; Deuteronomy 7:8; Deuteronomy 8:14; Deuteronomy 13:6; Deuteronomy 13:11; Joshua 24:17; Judges 6:8; Jeremiah 34:13; Micah 6:4; † וזכרת כי עבד היית מצרים ב(ארץׅ and thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in (the land of) Egypt Deuteronomy 5:15; Deuteronomy 15:15; Deuteronomy 16:12; Deuteronomy 24:18, 22; king of Babylon is slave to י׳ Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 27:6; Jeremiah 43:10; the borrower to the lender Proverbs 22:7; figurative of beast Job 40:28; of things Genesis 47:19.
2. Subjects, of chief Genesis 26:15, 19, 25, 32; Genesis 27:37; Genesis 32:17 (twice in verse) +; of king Genesis 21:25; Exodus 7:28; Exodus 7:29; 1 Kings 9:27; Deuteronomy 29:1 +; vassal kings 2 Samuel 10:19; tributary nations 2 Samuel 8:2, 6, 14 = 1 Chronicles 18:2, 6, 13; specifically officers of king 1 Samuel 19:1; 1 Samuel 21:8; 2 Samuel 11:13; Proverbs 14:35 +; עַבְדֵי פַרְעֹה Genesis 40:20; Genesis 41:10; שָׁאוּל ע׳ 1 Samuel 16:17; 1 Samuel 18:22; 1 Samuel 28:7; הַמֶּלֶךְ ע׳ 1 Kings 1:47; Esther 3:3 +; עֶבֶד הַמֶּלֶךְ 2 Kings 22:12 2 Chronicles 34:20 (a court offical); opposed to שַׂר Proverbs 19:10; Ecclesiastes 10:7; מֶלֶךְ Proverbs 30:22; ambassadors Numbers 22:18; 2 Samuel 10:2; soldiers of army 1 Samuel 17:8; 1 Samuel 25:10; 2 Samuel 2:12, + officers of army 1 Samuel 29:3; 1 Kings 11:26; 2 Kings 25:8; Isaiah 36:9.
3. Servants, worshippers, of God: † עַבְדֵי יהוה 2 Kings 9:7; 2 Kings 10:23; Isaiah 54:17, compare Genesis 50:17; Isaiah 56:6; עֲבָדָיו Deuteronomy 32:36 = Psalm 135:14; Isaiah 65:15; Isaiah 66:14; Psalm 34:23; Psalm 69:37; Nehemiah 2:20; || עַמּוֺ Psalm 105:25 compare Deuteronomy 32:43; עֲבָּדַי Isaiah 65:8, 9, 13 (twice in verse); Isa 69:13; Isa 69:14; עֲבָדֶיךָ 1 Kings 8:23; Isaiah 63:17 (|| שִׁבְטֵי נחלתך), Psalm 89:51; Psalm 90:13; Psalm 90:16; Psalm 102:15; Psalm 102:29; Psalm 119:91; Psalm 79:2; Psalm 79:10 (|| חֲסִידֶיךָ); delivered from Egypt Leviticus 25:42, 55 (twice in verse); Leviticus 26:13 (P); עַבְדְּךָ Psalm 119:125; Psalm 143:2, || בֶּןאֲֿמָתֶ֑ךָ Psalm 86:16; Psalm 116:16 (twice in verse); specifically angels Job 4:18; and ancient worthies, patriarchs Exodus 32:13 (J) Deuteronomy 9:27; Abraham Genesis 26:24 (J) Psalm 105:6; Psalm 105:42; Isaac Genesis 24:14 (J); Jacob, Israel Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 37:25; 1 Chronicles 16:13; Moses † Exodus 14:31; Joshua 18:7 (J) Numbers 12:7, 8 (E) Deuteronomy 34:5 (?) Joshua 1:1, 2, 7, 13, 15; Joshua 8:31, 33; Joshua 9:24; Joshua 11:12, 15; Joshua 12:6 (twice in verse); Joshua 13:8; Joshua 14:7; Joshua 22:2, 4, 5 (all D), 1 Kings 8:53, 56; 2 Kings 18:12; 2 Kings 21:8; 1 Chronicles 6:34; 2 Chronicles 1:3; 24:6, 9; Nehemiah 1:8; Nehemiah 9:14; Nehemiah 10:30; Psalm 105:26; Malachi 3:22; Daniel 9:11; Joshua † Joshua 24:29 (E) Judges 2:8; Caleb † Numbers 14:24 (J); Job † Job 1:8; Job 2:3; Job 42:7, 8 (3 times in verse); David 2 Samuel 3:18; 2 Samuel 7:5, 8, 26 + 27 times; Hezekiah † 2 Chronicles 32:16; Zerubbabel † Haggai 2:23; Eliakim † Isaiah 22:20. — The צֶמַח Zechariah 3:8; compare Zechariah 6:12 is also servant of י׳ as Messianic builder of temple (see BrMP 442 ff).
†4. Servant of י׳, in a special sense: of Levitical singers using benedictions in temple Psalm 113:1; Psalm 134:1; Psalm 135:1; usually of prophets, עֲבָדַי הַנְּבִיאִים my servants the prophets 2 Kings 9:7; 2 Kings 17:13; Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 29:19; Jeremiah 35:15; Jeremiah 44:4; Ezekiel 38:17; Zechariah 1:6; עֲבָדָיו הַנְּבִיאִים 2 Kings 17:23; 2 Kings 21:10; 2 Kings 24:2; Jeremiah 25:4; Amos 3:7; Daniel 9:10; עֲבָדֶיךָ הנביאים Ezra 9:11; Daniel 9:6; specifically Ahia 1 Kings 14:18; 1 Kings 15:29; Elijah 2 Kings 9:36; 2 Kings 10:10; Jonah 2 Kings 14:25; Isaiah Isaiah 20:3; עַבְדּוֺ, || מלאכיו Isaiah 44:26; as one calling to fear י׳ Isaiah 50:10.
†5. Israel as a people is servant of ׃י׳ יִשְׂרָאֵל Isaiah 41:8, 9; Isaiah 44:21 (twice in verse); Isaiah 49:3; Psalm 136:22; יעקב Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 44:2; Isaiah 45:4; Isaiah 48:20; Jeremiah 30:10; Jeremiah 46:27; Jeremiah 47:28; עַבְדִּי = עֶבֶד יהוה, || מַלְאָכִי, as having a mission to the nations Isaiah 42:19 (twice in verse); and chosen as witness of י׳ Isaiah 43:10. But there is also an ideal servant chosen and endowed with the divine Spirit to be a covenant of Israel and a light of the nations Isaiah 42:1 (compare Isaiah 42:2-6); formed to bring back Jacob, raise up the tribes, and become salvation to the end of the earth Isaiah 49:5, 6, 7; bearing the sins of all as a lamb and a trespass-offering, and yet prospering and justifying many as interposing martyr Isaiah 52:13; Isaiah 53:11: many understand of ideal Israel, contrasted with the actual; others of personification || with Zion the wife and mother, distinguished from unworthy Israel as Zion from her apostate children; al. of ideal prophetic writer; al. of ideal prophetic person; al. (especially in Isaiah 53) of an actual prophecy known to writer and his readers; [in any case it is Messianic, see Matthew 8:16, 17; 12:16-21; Luke 4:17-22; Philippians 2:5-11]; see DeIsa ii. 174 DaExpos. 1884, 358 ff. Di Du Che and others on Isaiah 42; Isaiah 53, DrIs 168 ff. BrMP 345 ff., also GieBeitr. 146 ff. BertholIsaiah 53.
6. In polite address of equals or superiors the Hebrews used עַבְדְּךָ thy servant = 1st person singular, I, Genesis 18:3; 1 Samuel 20:7, 8 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 8:13 +; עֲבָדֶיךָ thy servants = we Genesis 42:11; Isaiah 36:11; also עַבְדּוֺ his servant = I, 1 Samuel 26:18, 19; 2 Samuel 14:22; 2 Samuel 24:21 +; also in addressing God, especially in prayer Exodus 4:10; Numbers 11:11; Judges 15:18; 1 Samuel 3:9, 10; 1 Samuel 25:39; 2 Samuel 24:10; Psalm 19:12; Psalm 19:14; Psalm 27:9; Psalm 31:17; Psalm 35:27; Psalm 69:18; Psalm 109:28; Psalm 143:2 +.
7. Phrases are: † עבד (היה), with לְ person, become servant to Genesis 9:26, 27; Genesis 44:10, 16, 17, 33; Genesis 47:19, 26 (J) Deuteronomy 6:21; Deuteronomy 15:17; 2 Samuel 8:14; 2 Kings 17:3; 2 Kings 24:1; 1 Chronicles 18:2, 6, 13; 2 Chronicles 10:7; Proverbs 11:29; Proverbs 12:9; Proverbs 22:7; † היה לעבד, with לְ person, Genesis 44:9 (J) Genesis 50:18 (E) 1 Samuel 8:17; 1 Samuel 17:9 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 27:12; 2 Samuel 8:2, 6; Jeremiah 34:16; כבשׁ לעבדים 2 Chronicles 28:10; Nehemiah 5:5; Jeremiah 34:11; לקח לע׳ Genesis 43:18 (J) 2 Kings 4:1; Job 40:28 [Job 41:4].

See related Aramaic BDB entry H5649.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

9:25; 9:25; 9:25; 9:26; 9:27; 12:16; 18:3; 18:3; 19:19; 21:25; 21:25; 24:14; 26:15; 26:19; 26:24; 26:24; 26:25; 26:32; 27:37; 32:5; 32:17; 39:17; 39:19; 40:20; 41:10; 41:12; 42:11; 43:18; 44:9; 44:10; 44:10; 44:16; 44:17; 44:33; 47:19; 47:19; 47:26; 50:2; 50:17; 50:18

Exodus

4:10; 12:44; 13:3; 13:14; 14:31; 20:10; 21:2; 32:13

Leviticus

25:6; 25:42; 25:42; 25:55; 26:13

Numbers

11:11; 12:7; 12:8; 14:24; 22:18

Deuteronomy

5:6; 5:14; 5:15; 6:12; 6:21; 7:8; 8:14; 9:27; 13:6; 13:11; 15:15; 15:17; 16:12; 23:16; 24:18; 24:22; 29:1; 32:36; 32:43; 34:5

Joshua

1:1; 1:2; 1:7; 1:13; 1:15; 8:31; 8:33; 9:11; 9:24; 11:12; 11:15; 12:6; 13:8; 14:7; 18:7; 22:2; 22:4; 22:5; 24:17; 24:29

Judges

2:8; 6:8; 15:18

1 Samuel

3:9; 3:10; 8:17; 16:17; 17:8; 17:9; 18:22; 19:1; 20:7; 20:8; 21:8; 25:10; 25:39; 26:18; 26:19; 27:12; 28:7; 29:3

2 Samuel

2:12; 3:18; 7:5; 7:8; 7:26; 8:2; 8:2; 8:6; 8:6; 8:14; 8:14; 10:2; 10:19; 11:13; 14:22; 24:10; 24:21

1 Kings

1:47; 8:23; 8:53; 8:56; 9:27; 11:26; 14:18; 15:29

2 Kings

4:1; 8:13; 9:7; 9:7; 9:36; 10:10; 10:23; 17:3; 17:13; 17:23; 18:12; 21:8; 21:10; 22:12; 24:1; 24:2; 25:8

1 Chronicles

6:34; 16:13; 18:2; 18:2; 18:6; 18:6; 18:13; 18:13

2 Chronicles

1:3; 10:7; 24:6; 24:9; 28:10; 32:16; 34:20

Ezra

9:11

Nehemiah

1:8; 2:20; 5:5; 9:14; 10:30

Esther

3:3

Job

1:8; 2:3; 4:18; 31:13; 41:4; 42:7; 42:8

Psalms

19:12; 19:14; 27:9; 31:17; 35:27; 69:18; 79:2; 79:10; 86:16; 89:51; 90:13; 90:16; 102:15; 105:6; 105:25; 105:26; 105:42; 109:28; 113:1; 116:16; 119:91; 119:125; 134:1; 135:1; 135:14; 136:22; 143:2; 143:2

Proverbs

11:29; 12:9; 14:35; 19:10; 22:7; 22:7; 30:22

Ecclesiastes

10:7

Isaiah

14:2; 20:3; 22:20; 24:2; 36:9; 36:11; 41:8; 41:9; 42; 42:1; 42:2; 42:3; 42:4; 42:5; 42:6; 42:19; 43:10; 44:1; 44:2; 44:21; 44:26; 45:4; 48:20; 49:3; 49:5; 49:6; 49:7; 50:10; 52:13; 53; 53; 53; 53:11; 54:17; 56:6; 63:17; 65:8; 65:9; 65:13; 65:15; 66:14

Jeremiah

2:14; 7:25; 25:4; 25:9; 26:5; 27:6; 29:19; 30:10; 34:11; 34:11; 34:13; 34:16; 35:15; 43:10; 44:4; 46:27

Ezekiel

28:25; 37:25; 38:17

Daniel

9:6; 9:10; 9:11

Amos

3:7

Jonah

2

Micah

6:4

Haggai

2:23

Zechariah

1:6; 3:8; 6:12

Malachi

1:6

Matthew

8:16; 8:17; 12:16; 12:17; 12:18; 12:19; 12:20; 12:21

Luke

4:17; 4:18; 4:19; 4:20; 4:21; 4:22

Philippians

2:5; 2:6; 2:7; 2:8; 2:9; 2:10; 2:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5650 matches the Hebrew עֶבֶד (ʿeḇeḏ),
which occurs 33 times in 30 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 - Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a spoil?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:25 - Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt, unto this day, have I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - And afterwards, saith Jehovah, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life, and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword: he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:2 - and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people who enter in through these gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:4 - For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in through the gates of this house kings sitting in the place of David upon his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, -- he, and his servants, and his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:4 - And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:19 - Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:5 - to hearken unto the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent unto you, even rising early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:6 - And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field also have I given him to serve him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:19 - because they have not hearkened to my words, saith Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto them my servants the prophets, rising early and sending; but ye have not hearkened, saith Jehovah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:10 - And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith Jehovah; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:21 - then shall also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:22 - As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:26 - then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so as not to take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will turn their captivity, and will have mercy on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:9 - that every man should let his bondman, and every man his bondmaid, the Hebrew and the Hebrewess, go free, that none should exact service of them, that is, of a Jew his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:10 - And all the princes and all the people that had entered into the covenant obeyed, every man letting his bondman and every man his bondmaid go free, that none should exact service of them any more: they obeyed, and let them go.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:11 - But afterwards they turned, and caused the bondmen and the bondmaids whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for bondmen and for bondmaids.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:13 - Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:16 - but ye have turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his bondman, and every man his bondmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and ye have brought them into subjection, to be unto you for bondmen and for bondmaids.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:15 - And I have sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them; and ye shall dwell in the land that I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear nor hearkened unto me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:24 - And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:31 - And I will visit their iniquity upon him, and upon his seed, and upon his servants; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; and they have not hearkened.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:2 - And neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, hearkened unto the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18 - And Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in the prison?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:10 - and say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones which I have hidden, and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:4 - And I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing which I hate!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:26 - And I will give them into the hand of those that seek their life, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; but afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:27 - But thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, neither be dismayed, Israel: for behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:28 - Fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith Jehovah: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee with judgment, and I will not hold thee altogether guiltless.
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