עֲבַד
ʻăbad · ab-bad'
to do, make, prepare, keep, etc.
Lexicon
Derivation: (Aramaic) corresponding to H5647 (עָבַד);
to do, make, prepare, keep, etc.
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] cut, do, execute, go on, make, move, work.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the house, what is within › the doorway, the way in
To see and know of the house, what is within of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֲבַד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
28 occurrences · 28 OT · 0 NT · 27 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- made4 · 14%
- and that they have moved1 · 4%
- have been made1 · 4%
- not to do1 · 4%
- goeth1 · 4%
- ye shall do1 · 4%
- be made1 · 4%
- let it be done1 · 4%
- they did1 · 4%
- kept1 · 4%
- to do1 · 4%
- that do1 · 4%
- of you, it be done1 · 4%
- done1 · 4%
- do1 · 4%
- executed1 · 4%
- thereof, ye shall be cut1 · 4%
- which i have made1 · 4%
- shall be cut1 · 4%
- hath wrought1 · 4%
- and he doeth1 · 4%
- doest1 · 4%
- he did1 · 4%
- have i done1 · 4%
- and he worketh1 · 4%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.