{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5656",
  "lemma": "עֲבֹדָה",
  "transliteration": "ʻăbôdâh",
  "definition": "work of any kind",
  "kjv": "act, bondage, [phrase] bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office…",
  "occurrences": 145,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H5647",
      "lemma": "עָבַד",
      "transliteration": "ʻâbad",
      "meaning": "to work",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H5647"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "עֲבֹדָה, and (Chr) עֲבוֹדָה 146 n.f. labour, service",
    "1. labour, work",
    "2. labour of servant or slave",
    "3. labour, service of captives or subjects",
    "4. service of God"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:27",
      "text": "Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 30:26",
      "text": "Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 1:14",
      "text": "and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 2:23",
      "text": "In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 5:9",
      "text": "Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 5:11",
      "text": "Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 6:6",
      "text": "Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/6?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 6:9",
      "text": "Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/6?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 12:25",
      "text": "It shall happen when you have come to the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 12:26",
      "text": "It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=26"
    }
  ],
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