Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H5659: עַבְדוּת

ʻabdûwth · pronounced ab-dooth' · “slavery”

Definition

servitude

KJV translates it as: bondage.

Word origin: from H5647 (עָבַד);

Extended definition

servitude, bondage

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H5659 is translated

  • our ×2
  • their ×1

Bible verses with H5659 (ʻabdûwth)

ʻabdûwth appears in 3 verses.

  • Ezra 9:8

    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.

  • Ezra 9:9

    For 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 9:17

    And 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.