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# עֲבֵד

Biblical Aramaic

**slave** — used 26 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

slave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5d1_5b5_5d3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲבַד²: n.m. slave, servant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5d1_5b5_5d3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. slave, servant (BH עֶ֫בֶד);—cstr. עֲבֵד Dn 6:21 servant of God; pl. sf. of king, עבדיך Kt (K§ 53 Anm. b)), עַבְדָךְ Qr Ezr 4:11; עַבְדָךְ Qr Dn 2:4; sf. of God, עַבְד֫וֹהִי, Dn 3:26, 28; Ezr 5:11, of king Dn 2:7.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: and Abednego (26).

## In the verses

[Daniel 3:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.30/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֣יִן מַלְכָּ֗א הַצְלַ֛ח לְשַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֛ךְ וַעֲבֵ֥ד נְג֖וֹ עֲבֵ֥ד נְג֖וֹ בִּמְדִינַ֥ת בָּבֶֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* then the king he.caused.to.prosper (et) Shadrach Meshach and.Abednego and.Abednego in the.province of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.

[Daniel 3:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.23/#tree)

וְגֻבְרַיָּ֤א אִלֵּךְ֙ תְּלָ֣תֵּה֔וֹן שַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֖ךְ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ נְפַ֛לוּ לְגֽוֹא־אַתּוּן־נוּרָ֥א יָֽקִדְתָּ֖א מְכַפְּתִֽין׃פ

*Word for word:* and the men these three of.them Shadrach Meshach and.Abednego and.Abednego they.fell to the.midst of.the.furnace of the.fire (the) burning bound

*JPS 1917:* And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5d1_5b5_5d3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5d1_5b5_5d3/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).