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Service

פׇּלְחָןStrong’s H6402

polchan (pol-chan)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Polchan is the Aramaic word usually translated “worship of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.”
Ezra 7:19 KJV
Meaning
  1. Service, worship
How it's translated
  • for worship of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Ezra 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    פׇּלְחָן polchan · service

    service, worship

    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.]

    1. 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.
    2. The business of a servant; menial office.
    3. Attendance of a servant.
    4. Place of a servant; actual employment of a servant; as, to be out of service.
    All definitions
    1. Any thing done by way of duty to a superior.
    2. Attendance on a superior.
    3. Profession of respect uttered or sent.
    4. Actual duty; that which is required to be done in an office; as, to perform the services of a clerk, a sherif or judge.
    5. That which God requires of man; worship; obedience.
    6. Employment; business; office; as, to qualify a man for public service.
    7. Use; purpose.
    8. Military duty by land or sea; as a military or naval service.
    9. A military achievment.
    10. Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness.
    11. Favor.
    12. The duty which a tenant owes to his lord for his fee.
    13. Public worship or office of devotion.
    14. A musical church composition consisting of choruses, trios, duets, solos, etc.
    15. The official duties of a minister of the gospel, as in church, at a funeral, marriage, etc.
    16. Courses; order of dishes at table.
    17. In seamen's language, the material used for serving a rope, as spun yarn, small lines, etc.
    18. 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.