Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
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Bondage
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2 Peter 2:19
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
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9 occurrences in 8 verses.
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עֶבֶד
ʻebed · eh'-bed
10 times translated as this KJV form797 total Strong's occurrences
a servant
Strong's KJV usage: × bondage, bondman, (bond-) servant, (man-) servant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 13:3Strong's last: Judges 6:8
Open full H5650 profile →עֲבֹדָה
ʻăbôdâh · ab-o-daw'
8 times translated as this KJV form141 total Strong's occurrences
work of any kind
Strong's KJV usage: act, bondage, bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, × wrought.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 1:14Strong's last: Isaiah 14:3
Open full H5656 profile →δουλεία
douleía · doo-li'-ah
5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
slavery (ceremonially or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bondage.
Strong's first: Romans 8:15Strong's last: Hebrews 2:15
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douleúō · dool-yoo'-o
4 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
to be a slave to (literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be in bondage, (do) serve(-ice).
Strong's first: John 8:33Strong's last: Galatians 4:25
Open full G1398 profile →δουλόω
doulóō · doo-lo'-o
4 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
to enslave (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bring into (be under) bondage, X given, become (make) servant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 7:6Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:19
Open full G1402 profile →עַבְדוּת
ʻabdûwth · ab-dooth'
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
servitude
Strong's KJV usage: bondage.
Strong's first: Ezra 9:8Strong's last: Nehemiah 9:17
Open full H5659 profile →καταδουλόω
katadoulóō · kat-ad-oo-lo'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to enslave utterly
Strong's KJV usage: :--bring into bondage.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 11:20Strong's last: Galatians 2:4
Open full G2615 profile →כָּבַשׁ
kâbash · kaw-bash'
2 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
to tread down; hence, negatively, to disregard; positively, to conquer, subjugate, violate
Strong's KJV usage: bring into bondage, force, keep under, subdue, bring into subjection.
Strong's first: Nehemiah 5:5Strong's last: Nehemiah 5:5
Open full H3533 profile →עָבַד
ʻâbad · aw-bad'
1 times translated as this KJV form291 total Strong's occurrences
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: × be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 6:5Strong's last: Exodus 6:5
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H5656
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
H5656
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
H5656
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
H5647
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
H5656
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
H5656
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
H5650
And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
H5650
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
H5650
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
H5650
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
H5650
Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
H5650
Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
H5650
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
H5650
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
H5656
And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
H5650
For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
H5650
That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
H5659
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.
H5659
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.
H3533
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
H3533
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
H5656
Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
H5659
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.
H5656
And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
G1398
They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
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bondage
BOND'AGE, noun Slavery or involuntary servitude; captivity; imprisonment; restraint of a person's liberty by compulsion. In ancient English law, villenage.
1. Obligation; tie of duty.
He must resolve not to be brought under the bondage of observing oaths.
2. In scripture, spiritual subjection to sin and corrupt passions, or to the yoke of the ceremonial law; servile fear. Hebrews 2:15. Galatians 2:4. Romans 8:15.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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