עֲבֹדָה (a.vo.dah) means “service” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ab-o-daw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
עֲבֹדָה · a.vo.dah · service
: service[as_servant/slave] 1) labour, service 1a) labour, work 1b) labour (of servant or slave) 1c) labour, service (of captives or subjects) 1d) service (of God)
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עֲבֹדָה · a.vo.dah · service: ministry
: ministry[for_God]/tabernacle] 1) labour, service 1a) labour, work 1b) labour (of servant or slave) 1c) labour, service (of captives or subjects) 1d) service (of God)
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עֲבֹדָה · a.vo.dah · service: work
: work/labour 1) labour, service 1a) labour, work 1b) labour (of servant or slave) 1c) labour, service (of captives or subjects) 1d) service (of God)
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or עֲבוֹדָה; from H5647 (עָבַד); work of any kind
KJV glosses: act, bondage, [phrase] bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, [idiom] wrought.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the service | 10 |
| the work | 10 |
| in the work | 7 |
| service | 7 |
| for the service | 4 |
| labor | 4 |
| of service | 4 |
| in the service | 3 |
| is the service | 3 |
| of the service | 3 |
| the service for these items | 3 |
| their service | 3 |
| as their service | 2 |
| bondage | 2 |
| for service | 2 |
| his task | 2 |
| of work | 2 |
| regular | 2 |
| so the service | 2 |
| task | 2 |
| the labor | 2 |
| their duties | 2 |
| to the service | 2 |
| according to the use | 1 |
| and for the service | 1 |
| and serving | 1 |
| and to his labor | 1 |
| burden of slavery | 1 |
| by | 1 |
| by task | 1 |
| does this service | 1 |
| for doing | 1 |
| for every kind of service | 1 |
| for its service | 1 |
| for their service | 1 |
| for which they were responsible | 1 |
| from their bondage | 1 |
| hard i have worked | 1 |
| his service | 1 |
| his work | 1 |
| its services | 1 |
| of constructing | 1 |
| of serving | 1 |
| of their service | 1 |
| other work | 1 |
| related to their use | 1 |
| slavery | 1 |
| strenuously | 1 |
| the burden | 1 |
| the difference between serving me | 1 |
| their posts | 1 |
| their work | 1 |
| this service | 1 |
| to assist | 1 |
| to cultivate | 1 |
| to do the work | 1 |
| to the work | 1 |
| toward the service | 1 |
| use | 1 |
| used in worship | 1 |
| where we labor | 1 |
| who tilled | 1 |
| with the service | 1 |
| workers | 1 |
| you the work | 1 |
| your work | 1 |
| your workload | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the service | 15 |
| for the service | 12 |
| no servile | 11 |
| of the service | 8 |
| bondage | 4 |
| for all the service | 3 |
| for the work | 3 |
| to his service | 3 |
| according to all their service | 2 |
| and the service | 2 |
| in the service | 2 |
| my service | 2 |
| service | 2 |
| servitude | 2 |
| so the service | 2 |
| the work | 2 |
| their service | 2 |
| this service | 2 |
| to their service | 2 |
| upon the service | 2 |
| a service | 1 |
| according to his service | 1 |
| according to their service | 1 |
| act | 1 |
| all the work | 1 |
| all their service | 1 |
| and all the service | 1 |
| and for all his service | 1 |
| and in all manner of service | 1 |
| and in all their service | 1 |
| and in the service | 1 |
| and the effect | 1 |
| and to his labour | 1 |
| and with all their service | 1 |
| because the bondage | 1 |
| because the service | 1 |
| by reason of the bondage | 1 |
| for any manner of service | 1 |
| for their service | 1 |
| for tillage | 1 |
| from their service | 1 |
| him to serve | 1 |
| his act | 1 |
| in all the service | 1 |
| in any manner of service | 1 |
| in their service | 1 |
| it for the service | 1 |
| let there more work | 1 |
| no manner of servile | 1 |
| no service | 1 |
| of all manner of service | 1 |
| of every kind of service | 1 |
| of it for all the service | 1 |
| of it for the service | 1 |
| of our tillage | 1 |
| of service | 1 |
| of their service | 1 |
| of them in their service | 1 |
| of them that wrought | 1 |
| of your work | 1 |
| on their office | 1 |
| shall be all the service | 1 |
| so all the service | 1 |
| the bondage | 1 |
| the ministering | 1 |
| the service of the ministry | 1 |
| thee this also for the service | 1 |
| them to the service | 1 |
| thereof according to the use | 1 |
| thereof and all that serveth | 1 |
| thus was all the work | 1 |
| to the service | 1 |
| to the work | 1 |
| unto all manner of service | 1 |
| unto their service | 1 |
| unto you what mean ye by this service | 1 |
| you out of their bondage | 1 |
| your service | 1 |
Page 1 of 3. 125 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
Read word by wordGive me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
Read word by wordand made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
Read word by wordAfter a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
Read word by wordMake the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”
Read word by wordGo and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
Read word by wordTherefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
Read word by wordMoses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.
Read word by wordWhen you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.
Read word by wordWhen your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
Read word by wordAnd when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.
Read word by wordAll the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.
Read word by wordTake the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD to make atonement for your lives.”
Read word by wordAnd everyone whose heart stirred him and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments.
Read word by wordAnd all who could present an offering of silver or bronze brought it as a contribution to the LORD. Also, everyone who had acacia wood for any part of the service brought it.
Read word by word“So Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person are to carry out everything commanded by the LORD, who has given them skill and ability to know how to perform all the work of constructing the sanctuary.”
Read word by wordThey received from Moses all the contributions that the Israelites had brought to carry out the service of constructing the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning,
Read word by wordand said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work the LORD has commanded us to do.”
Read word by wordThis is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
Read word by wordSo all the work for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Read word by wordthe curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases; the curtain for the gate of the courtyard, its ropes and tent pegs, and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting;
Read word by wordThe Israelites had done all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Read word by wordOn the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.
Read word by wordFor seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”
Read word by wordOn that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.
Read word by wordYou must not do any regular work, but you are to present a food offering to the LORD.’”
Read word by wordOn the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.
Read word by wordFor seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Read word by wordIf a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
Read word by wordThey are to perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, attending to the service of the tabernacle.
Read word by wordThey shall take care of all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and fulfill obligations for the Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.
Read word by wordthe curtains of the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and altar, and the cords—all the service for these items.
Read word by wordTheir duties were the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used with them, and the curtain—all the service for these items.
Read word by wordThe duties assigned to the sons of Merari were the tabernacle’s frames, crossbars, posts, bases, and all its equipment—all the service for these items,
Read word by wordThis service of the Kohathites at the Tent of Meeting regards the most holy things.
Read word by wordIn order that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and what he is to carry.
Read word by wordfrom thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Read word by wordThis is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transport:
Read word by wordthe curtains of the courtyard, and the curtains for the entrance at the gate of the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and altar, along with their ropes and all the equipment for their service. The Gershonites will do all that needs to be done with these items.
Read word by wordAll the service of the Gershonites—all their transport duties and other work—is to be done at the direction of Aaron and his sons; you are to assign to them all that they are responsible to carry.
Read word by wordThis is the service of the Gershonite clans at the Tent of Meeting, and their duties shall be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
Read word by wordfrom thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work of the Tent of Meeting.
Read word by wordThis is the duty for all their service at the Tent of Meeting: to carry the frames of the tabernacle with its crossbars, posts, and bases,
Read word by wordand the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and everything related to their use. You shall assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.
Read word by wordThis is the service of the Merarite clans according to all their work at the Tent of Meeting, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”
Read word by wordeveryone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Read word by wordeveryone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Read word by wordeveryone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Read word by wordfrom thirty to fifty years old who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.
Read word by wordAt the LORD’s command through Moses they were numbered, and each one was assigned his work and burden, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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