עֲבֻדָּה
avuda · servants, household
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5657 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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avuda (עֲבֻדָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “servants, household”.
Household servants: all the servants of a house.
How to say it
a·vu·da
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
- All who worked for a master.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 26:14
He had flocks and herds and many servants, and the Philistines envied him.
- Job 1:3
His livestock was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household of servants; and that man was greater than all the sons of the east.