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עָבַד S 5647 TWOT 1553 GK 6268290 vb. work, serve ( Old Aramaic עבד do, make , especially Nab. Palm. (often), Lzb 331 f. Cook 86, so å עֲבַד , Syriac ܥܒܰܕ ( ˓bad ) (very often); but also Old Aramaic Ph. עבד slave, vassal (and in many n.pr. ), å עַבְדָּא , Syriac ܥܰܒܕܳܐ ( ˓abdo ) id.; Assyrian abdu , id. (rare); NH עָבַד serve, perform acts of worship ( c. acc. cogn .), and deriv.; Arabic عَبَدَ ( ˓abada ) worship, obey (God); cf. We Skizzen iii. 165; Heid. 141 , II . enslave; عَبْدٌ ( ˓abdun ) slave, worshipper; Sab. עבד id. DHM Sudar. Alt. p. 18 ; Gerber Verb. Denom. 14 ff. thinks be slave, serve (Qal) and enslave (Hiph.) are denom., cf. also ZMG xi (1886), 741 ) ;— Qal 272 Pf. 3 ms. ע׳ Ez 29:18 +; sf. עֲבָדֹו Mal 3:18 +; 3 mpl. עָֽבְדוּ Dt 7: 4; עָבָ˜דוּ Nu 4:2 6, + 64 times Pf. ; Impf. 3 ms. יַעֲבֹד Gn 25:23 +; sf. יַעַבְדֵ˜נִי Ex 4:2 3; יַעַבְדֶ˜נּוּ ψ 22:31 2 K 10:18 ; 3 mpl. יַעַבְדוּ Dt 12:30 +; יַעֲבֹ˜דוּ Gn 15:14 ( Dr § 103) Jb 36:11 ; 2 mpl. תַּעַבְדוּן Ex 3:1 2, תַּעֲבֹד˜וּן Jos 24:1 5, + 99 times Impf. ; ( תָּעָבְדֵם , נָֽעָבְדֵם v. Hoph. ); Imv. עֲבֹד 1 S 26:1 9; sf. עָבְדֵהוּ 1 Ch 28: 9; עִבְדוּ Ex


vb. verb. Nab. Nabataean. Palm. Palmyrene. Lzb M. Lidsbarski (v. Ldzb.). Cook Stanley A. Cook.
åÑ Targum.

Ph. Phenician.
n.pr. nomen proprium, proper name. NH New (Late) Hebrew.
c. circa , about; also cum , with. acc. cogn. acc. . of cognate meaning with verb. We J. Wellhousen, Skizzen und Vorarbeiten .

Heid. J. Wellhousen, History of Israel (trans. by Black). Sab. Sabean.

DHM D. H. Müller, Südarabische Studien ; Gerber W.T. Gerber, Verba Denomitnativa . T. Nöldeke .

ZMG Zeitschrift d. deutsch. Morgenländ. Gesellschaft. Pf. Perfect.
ms. masculine singular.
+ plus, denotes often that other passages, etc., might be cited. So also where the forms of verbs, nouns, and adjectives are illustrated by citations, near the beginning of articles; while etc. in such connexions commonly indicates that other forms of the word occur, which it has not been thought worth while to cite.
sf. suffix, or with suffix.
mpl. masculine plural.

Impf. Imperfect. Dr S. R. Driver, Hebrew Tenses; Imv. Imperative.


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