Servant/slave
עֲבַדStrong’s H5649avad (a-vad)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avad is the Aramaic word usually translated “servants his”, “servant your” and “servant of”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.”
Meaning
- Servant, slave
How it's translated
- servants his 3
- servant your 1
- to servant your 1
- to servants his 1
- servant of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
- Ezra 2
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:7In contextThey answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.
- Daniel 3:26In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
- Daniel 3:28In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
- Daniel 6:20In contextAnd when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
- Ezra 4:11This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.
- Ezra 5:11And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
Aramaic dictionary
עֲבַד avad · servant/slave
servant, slave Aramaic of e.ved (עֶ֫בֶד "servant/slave" H5650)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.