# H5656 עֲבֹדָה

עֲבֹדָה (ʻăbôdâh), Strong’s H5656: work of any kind KJV: act, bondage, [phrase] bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office…. Occurs 145 times.

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*ʻăbôdâh* — work of any kind

KJV: act, bondage, [phrase] bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office…

Derived from [עָבַד ʻâbad](https://besorah.bible/word/H5647) (to work)

Occurs 145 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 29:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=27) — Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for…
- [Genesis 30:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=26) — 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…
- [Exodus 1:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=14) — and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field…
- [Exodus 2:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=23) — In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and…
- [Exodus 5:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=9) — Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
- [Exodus 5:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=11) — Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
- [Exodus 6:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/6?v=6) — Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the…
- [Exodus 6:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/6?v=9) — Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- [Exodus 12:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=25) — It shall happen when you have come to the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep…
- [Exodus 12:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=26) — It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’