עֶבֶד

παῖς paîs · G3816 · child, offspring

Greek παῖς encompasses both child/youth and servant senses, whereas Hebrew עֶבֶד denotes servant/slave status without the age-related semantic component, though παῖς does render עֶבֶד in contexts where servant status (often of a young attendant) is primary.

δοῦλος doûlos · G1401 · subservient to, controlled by, slave

Greek δοῦλος serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew עֶבֶד across the semantic range of servitude, from chattel slavery to voluntary service to covenant relationship with God, maintaining the same core denotation of one bound in service to a master.

עֲבַד ʻăbad · H5649 · servant

The Aramaic cognate עֲבַד (ʻăbad, H5649) corresponds directly to Hebrew עֶבֶד (ʻebed, H5650) as the same-root reflex denoting 'servant' across the sister languages, appearing in Aramaic portions of Daniel and Ezra where the Hebrew equivalent would naturally be used in Hebrew text.

διάκονος diákonos · G1249 · servant, deacon, one who helps the believers

διάκονος denotes service/ministry with emphasis on active attending/ministering function (waiter, attendant, minister), whereas עֶבֶד denotes the servant's status/relationship to master (bondservant, slave) — overlapping in servant contexts but distinguished by διάκονος's functional focus versus עֶבֶד's relational/status focus.

θεράπων therápōn · G2324 · servant

Greek θεράπων (therapōn) denotes a menial attendant or servant, functioning as a direct translation equivalent of Hebrew עֶבֶד (ebed) in contexts of servitude and household service roles.

οἰκέτης oikétēs · G3610 · house servant, household servant, personal servant

οἰκέτης (oikétēs, G3610) οἰκέτης specifically denotes a household servant/domestic, narrower than עֶבֶד (ʻebed, H5650) עֶבֶד's broader servant/bondman range that includes non-household contexts (royal court, field labor, chattel slavery); the Greek term is register-restricted to domestic household service.

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עֶבֶד denotes a servant, bondman, or slave, a social class term, illustrated at Genesis 9:25 ("a servant of servants he shall be to his brothers") and Exodus 21:2 ("if you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years"), and used honorifically of one who serves a superior or a king ("your servant") throughout the historical and prophetic books.

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This entry's own tagged occurrences do genuinely attest an official/servant-of-the-king sense, as in “He also treated Abram well for her sake; and he gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male servants and female servants” is one of many such occurrences (Genesis 12:16).

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This entry's own tagged occurrences are the common noun for a servant or slave and its associated verb sense of serving, as in “He also treated Abram well for her sake; and he gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male servants and female servants” (Genesis 12:16).

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This entry carries no independent “Priests” sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the common noun for a servant or slave in the general sense, as in “He also treated Abram well for her sake; and he gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male servants and female servants” (Genesis 12:16). The “Priests” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme עֶבֶד (ʻEbed, H5651) rather than independently attested here.

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This entry carries no independent personal-name sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the common noun for a servant or slave, as in “He also treated Abram well for her sake; and he gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male servants and female servants” (Genesis 12:16). The “Names of People” domain is bundle-shared with the related personal name עֶבֶד (ʻEbed, H5651), which it is not independently attested as here.

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.