Slavery
עַבְדוּתStrong’s H5659avdut (av-dut)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avdut is the Hebrew word usually translated “servitude our” and “servitude their”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.”
Meaning
- Servitude, bondage
How it's translated
- in servitude our 1
- and in servitude our 1
- to servitude their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 2
- Nehemiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 9:9For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
- Nehemiah 9:17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
Hebrew dictionary
עַבְדוּת avdut · slavery
servitude, bondage
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slavery” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLA'VERY, noun
[See Slave.]
- Bondage; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. slavery is the obligation to labor for the benefit of the master, without the contract of consent of the servant. slavery may proceed from crimes, from captivity or from debt. slavery is also voluntary or involuntary; voluntary, when a person sells or yields his own person to the absolute command of another; involuntary, when he is placed under the absolute power of another without his own consent. slavery no longer exists in Great Britain, not in the northern states of America.
- The offices of a slave; drudgery.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.