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עֲבִידָה

service

also: work, ritual, worship fuller range ↓

H5673 Strong's Hebrew
ʻăbîydâh Transliteration
/ab-ee-daw'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 6 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“service” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun עבידה (ʻăbîydâh). It clusters heavily in Ezra, which alone accounts for 67% of its uses. It turns up in 6 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Ezra 4:24. Lexicons map it across 3 senses — beyond “service” it also covers “work”, “ritual”, and “worship”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
affairs
Modern gloss
service
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H5673 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

6
distinct verses
The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
Ezra 4:24
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Ezra 4:24.
Daniel 3:12
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Daniel 3:12.
#3,040
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 4 · 67%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 2 · 33%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.

  • Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Affairs 2×, Work 2×
  • American Standard Version: Affairs 2×, Work 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Construction 1×, Leave this work 1×, Manage 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Work of 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H5673 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Affairs” 2×
  • “Work” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H5673 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Affairs” 2×
  • “Work” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H5673 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Construction” 1×
  • “Leave this work” 1×
  • “Manage” 1×
  • “Service” 1×
  • “Work” 1×

Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H5673 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Work of” 2×

Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in BDB

The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. work, service, ritual, worship
  2. work, administration
  3. ritual, service

Word origin

[ עֲבִידָה ] n.f. work, service

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from עבד (ʻăbad) (H5648) — to make.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TWOT: 2896b


Forms in the corpus

The 6 distinct written forms H5673 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
וַ/עֲבִ֥ידְתָּ/א Particle, Definite Article Ezra 5:8 1
לַ/עֲבִידַ֖ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Ezra 6:7 1
עֲבִֽידְתָּ/א֙ Particle, Definite Article Daniel 2:49 1
עֲבִידַ֣ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Ezra 4:24 1
עֲבִידַ֥ת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Ezra 6:18 1
עֲבִידַת֙ Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct Daniel 3:12 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5673, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

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Shares the same root

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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