עֲבִידָה
ʻăbîydâh · H5673 · Aramaic · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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work, labor, service
State in which humans, either as individuals or as groups, perform their duties, tasks and obligations towards others, either to receive income or because they are forced to do so
ExamplesEzra 4:24 Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem was discontinued, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 5:8 “May it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God which is being built with large stones, and beams are being laid in the walls; and this work is being performed with great care and is succeeding in their hands.
Ezra 6:7 “Leave that work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild that house of God on its site.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- בַּיִתhouse 2
- מְדִינָהprovince 1
- אֱלָהּGod, god 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- דֵּךְthe same 1
- יְרוּשָׁלֵםJerusalem 1
- מְדִינָהprovince 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עֲבַדcut 1
- בְּטֵלcease 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 5
- לto/for 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- עֲבֹדָה ʻăbôdâh · H5656 · work, labor, service
- עֲבִידָה (ʻăbîydâh, H5673) (Aramaic עֲבִידָה) is the direct Aramaic cognate of עֲבֹדָה (ʻăbôdâh, H5656) (Hebrew עֲבֹדָה), both derived from the shared root ע-ב-ד and denoting work, service, or labor; the forms represent the same lexeme across sister languages within the biblical corpus.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Serve002003002023
- Daniel 3:12 has the Chaldeans tell the king, “there are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon, namely Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.”
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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