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עֲבַד

avad · servant

Aramaic word · Strong’s number H5649 · appears 7 times in the Bible

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What it means

avad (עֲבַד) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “servant”.

(Aramaic). The same word as the Hebrew "eved".

How to say it

a·vad

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A person who serves a king or his God, not necessarily a slave (Aramaic).

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • servants ×6
  • servant ×1

Related words

Comes from

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Ezra 4:11

    This is the copy of the letter that they sent to him: “To Artaxerxes the king: your servants, the men of the other side of the river. And now:

  • Ezra 5:11

    And thus they returned an answer to us, saying: ‘We are the servants of the Elah of the heavens and the earth, and we are building the house that was built many years before this; and a great king of Israel built it and finished it.

  • Daniel 2:4

    And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic: “O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”

  • Daniel 2:7

    They answered a second time and said, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare its interpretation.”

  • Daniel 3:26

    Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the furnace of fire blazing; he answered and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of Elah Illaya, come out and come!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the midst of the fire.

  • Daniel 3:28

    Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, “Blessed be their Elah, the Elah of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and they changed the king’s word and gave their bodies so that they would not serve and not bow down to any god except their Elah.

  • Daniel 6:20

    And as he came near to the den, to Daniel he cried out with an anguished voice. The king answered and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living Elah, has your Elah, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”