avida · work, service

What it means

avida (עֲבִידָה) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “work, service”.

Work; also the administration of an affair (Aramaic).

How to say it

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. Labour, task; the management of an affair.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• work ×3
• over the administration ×2
• service ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezra×4
• Daniel×2

• Ezra 4:24

  Then the work of the house of Elah which is in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

• Ezra 5:8

  Let it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great Elah; and it is being built with great stones, and timber is being laid in the walls; and that work is being done with diligence and prospers in their hands.

• Ezra 6:7

  Leave the work of that house of Elah alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build that house of Elah on its site.

• Ezra 6:18

  And they set the priests in their sections and the Levites in their divisions, over the service of Elah which is in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

• Daniel 2:49

  And Daniel made a request of the king, and he appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; and Daniel was at the gate of the king.

• Daniel 3:12

  There are certain Jewish men whom you appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men have paid no attention to you, O king; your gods they do not serve, and to the image of gold that you set up they do not bow down.”