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# עֲבֻדָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5657

**service** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

service [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5657/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲבֻדָּה: n.f. service [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5657/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. service (on format. v. LagBN 151);—of household servants as a body, ‖ cattle, etc., Gn 26:14 (J); Jb 1:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: service (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 26:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.14/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי־ל֤וֹ מִקְנֵה־צֹאן֙ וּמִקְנֵ֣ה בָקָ֔ר וַעֲבֻדָּ֖ה רַבָּ֑ה וַיְקַנְא֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.belonged to him livestock of.flock and livestock of.herd and service much and they.envied him \[the\].Philistines

*JPS 1917:* And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household; and the Philistines envied him.

[Job 1:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.3/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י מִ֠קְנֵהוּ שִֽׁבְעַ֨ת אַלְפֵי־צֹ֜אן וּשְׁלֹ֧שֶׁת אַלְפֵ֣י גְמַלִּ֗ים וַחֲמֵ֨שׁ מֵא֤וֹת צֶֽמֶד־בָּקָר֙ וַחֲמֵ֣שׁ מֵא֣וֹת אֲתוֹנ֔וֹת וַעֲבֻדָּ֖ה רַבָּ֣ה מְאֹ֑ד וַיְהִי֙ הָאִ֣ישׁ הַה֔וּא גָּד֖וֹל מִכָּל־בְּנֵי־קֶֽדֶם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was livestock his seven thousand(s) sheep and three thousand(s) camels and five hundred(s) pair\[s\] of.ox\[en\] and five hundred(s) female.donkeys and service much very and he.was the man (the) that great more than.all \[the\].people of.\[the\].east

*JPS 1917:* His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5657.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5657/): 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).