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# עֶבֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5651

**Ebed** — used 6 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

Ebed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5651/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶ֫בֶד²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5651/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (servant of God = עַבְדְּאֵל);— father of Gaal Ju 9:26, 28, 30, 31, 35 (GFM, after HollenbThLz 1891, 371 \[cf. BuIb. 1892, 63\] עֹבֵד, as 𝔊L; v. also GrayProp. N. 184, 272); 𝔊 Ιωβηλ, A 𝔊L Αβεδ. a companion of Ezra Ezr 8:6; 𝔊 Ωβηθ, 𝔊L Αμιναδαβ.—For list of Arabic names beginning with عبد v. NöZMG xli (1887), 724 ff., cf. also id.ib. xlii (1888), 486 WeHeid. 2, 2 ff.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Ebed (5); Ebed (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 8:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.6/#tree)

וּמִבְּנֵ֣י עָדִ֔ין עֶ֖בֶד בֶּן־יוֹנָתָ֑ן וְעִמּ֖וֹ חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים הַזְּכָרִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and of the.descendants of.Adin Ebed the.son of.Jonathan and with him \[were\].fifty the males

*JPS 1917:* And of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.

[Judges 9:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.30/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֗ע זְבֻל֙ שַׂר־הָעִ֔יר אֶת־דִּבְרֵ֖י גַּ֣עַל בֶּן־עָ֑בֶד וַיִּ֖חַר אַפּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard Zebul the.official of the.city (et) the.words of.Gaal the.son of.Ebed and it.burned anger his

*JPS 1917:* And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5651.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5651/): 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).