# H5647 עָבַד

עָבַד (ʻâbad), Strong’s H5647: to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc. KJV: [idiom] be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear……

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*ʻâbad* — to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.

KJV: [idiom] be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear…

Occurs 289 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָבַד 290 vb. work, serve
- Qal
- 1 labour, work, do work
- 2 work for another, serve him by labour
- 3 serve as subjects
- 4 serve God
- 5 serve י׳ with Levitical service
- Niph.
- 1 be tilled, of land
- 2 dub. cultivated field
- Pu. worked
- Hiph.
- 1 compel to labour as slaves
- 2 make to serve as subjects
- 3 cause to serve God
- Hoph. be led or enticed to serve

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=5) — No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused…
- [Genesis 2:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=15) — The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
- [Genesis 3:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=23) — Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
- [Genesis 4:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=2) — Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
- [Genesis 4:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=12) — From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the…
- [Genesis 14:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=4) — They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
- [Genesis 15:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=13) — He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will…
- [Genesis 15:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=14) — I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
- [Genesis 25:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=23) — The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will…
- [Genesis 27:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=29) — Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you…