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
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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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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.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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