עֶבֶד
ʻebed · eh'-bed
a servant
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5647 (עָבַד);
a servant
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] bondage, bondman, (bond-) servant, (man-) servant.
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 עֶבֶד 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
801 occurrences · 801 OT · 0 NT · 268 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- servants48 · 11%
- thy servant39 · 9%
- the servant31 · 7%
- my servant30 · 7%
- his servants25 · 6%
- his servant24 · 6%
- of thy servant22 · 5%
- thy servants19 · 5%
- of his servants19 · 5%
- and his servants18 · 4%
- servant17 · 4%
- unto his servants14 · 3%
- unto thy servant12 · 3%
- for thy servant11 · 3%
- of thy servants10 · 2%
- unto thy servants10 · 2%
- with thy servant10 · 2%
- and the servants10 · 2%
- of bondage10 · 2%
- of his servant9 · 2%
- and the servant8 · 2%
- a servant7 · 2%
- of the servants7 · 2%
- and menservants6 · 1%
- for thy servants5 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
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.