Servant/slave

1. Servant, slave

• servant your 147
• servants his 97
• servants your 71
• servants of 66
• servant my 48
• servant of 35
• servant his 34
• slaves 30

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• 2 Samuel 85
• Genesis 78
• 1 Kings 65
• 1 Samuel 56
• Psalms 56
• 2 Kings 53

31 books in all.

• Servant/slave (avad)

• Daniel 1:13In contextThen let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
• Daniel 9:6In contextNeither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
• Daniel 9:10In contextNeither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
• Daniel 9:11In contextYea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
• Daniel 9:17In contextNow therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
• Daniel 10:17In contextFor how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “slave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.