Strong’s H5657 · Hebrew
עֲבֻדָּה
ʻăbuddâh · ab-ood-daw'
Origin passive participle of עָבַד (H5647);
Meaning something wrought, i.e. (concretely) service
In the King James Version household, store of servants.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 26:14For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
- Job 1:3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.