eved (עֶבֶד) — Hebrew word meaning “slave”

עֶבֶד

eved

slave

Strong's H5650NounHebrewTWOT 1553a

עֶבֶד (eved) is a Hebrew noun meaning slave. It appears 803 times in 31 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5650).

Also rendered

servant/slave

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1553a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1553a)slave, servant; Subjects; worshippers; bondman

Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

עֶ֫בֶד noun, masculine: slave, servant

1.slave, servant of household
2.Subjects, of chief
3.Servants, worshippers of God
4.Servant of Jehovah, in a special sense
5.Israel as a people is servant of Jehovah
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7.Phrases

Strong's H5650 עֶבֶד: a servant
KJV:× bondage, bondman, (bond-) servant, (man-) servant.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1553: עָבַד ʿābad — work, serve; labour, do work, work for another, serve as subjects, with Levitical service; be tilled, cultivated; compel to labour, make to serve as subjects, cause to serve; be led, enticed to serve; enslave; keep in bondage…

See it in Scripture

Genesis 9:25 Exodus 4:10 Leviticus 25:6

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