5647 - abad

Strong's Concordance

Original word: עָבַד
Transliteration: abad
Definition (short): serve
Definition (full): to work, to serve, till, enslave

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to work, serve
NASB Translation: become slaves (1), been slaves (1), bondage (2), burdened (2), cultivate (7), cultivated (2), cultivates (1), do (6), do the work (1), enslaved (3), given (1), holding in bondage (1), imposed (1), keep (2), labor (3), laborers* (2), make servant (1), make slaves (2), manufacturers (1), observe (1), perform (9), performed (2), plowed (1), rendered (1), serve (141), served (52), serves (2), serving (5), slave (1), slaves (1), subject (1), till (1), tiller (1), tiller* (1), tills (2), use as slaves (1), used (1), uses services (1), work (7), worked (2), workers (2), working (1), worship (7), worshipers (6).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

A primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc. -- X be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, + husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
KJV: And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
NASB: Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
KJV: And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
NASB: Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.
KJV: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
NASB: therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
KJV: And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
NASB: Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
KJV: When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
NASB: "When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth."