Service
עֲבִידָהStrong’s H5673avidah (a-vi-dah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avidah is the Aramaic word usually translated “work of”, “work the” and “service of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.”
Meaning
- Work, service, ritual, worshipwork, administration · ritual, service
How it's translated
- work of 2
- and work the 1
- service of 1
- administration the 1
- administration of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 4
- Daniel 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:12In contextThere are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
- Ezra 4:24Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Ezra 5:8Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
- Ezra 6:7Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.
- Ezra 6:18And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
Aramaic dictionary
עֲבִידָה avidah · service
1) work, service, ritual, worship 1a) work, administration 1b) ritual, service
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “service” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SERV'ICE, noun
[From Latin servitium.]
- In a general sense, labor of body or of body and mind, performed at the command of a superior, or the pursuance of duty, or for the benefit of another. service is voluntary or involuntary.
- The business of a servant; menial office.
- Attendance of a servant.
- Place of a servant; actual employment of a servant; as, to be out of service.
All definitions
- Any thing done by way of duty to a superior.
- Attendance on a superior.
- Profession of respect uttered or sent.
- Actual duty; that which is required to be done in an office; as, to perform the services of a clerk, a sherif or judge.
- That which God requires of man; worship; obedience.
- Employment; business; office; as, to qualify a man for public service.
- Use; purpose.
- Military duty by land or sea; as a military or naval service.
- A military achievment.
- Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness.
- Favor.
- The duty which a tenant owes to his lord for his fee.
- Public worship or office of devotion.
- A musical church composition consisting of choruses, trios, duets, solos, etc.
- The official duties of a minister of the gospel, as in church, at a funeral, marriage, etc.
- Courses; order of dishes at table.
- In seamen's language, the material used for serving a rope, as spun yarn, small lines, etc.
- A tree and its fruit, of the genus Sorbus.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.