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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Servant

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

493exact KJV occurrences 409Old Testament 84New Testament 44books containing the word 14mapped Strong's IDs 489occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 9:25

And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 15:3

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where servant appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 4240 verses Exodus 99 verses Leviticus 65 verses Numbers 55 verses Deuteronomy 77 verses Joshua 2019 verses Judges 88 verses Ruth 22 verses 1 Samuel 3532 verses 2 Samuel 5441 verses 1 Kings 4139 verses 2 Kings 3026 verses 1 Chronicles 1513 verses 2 Chronicles 1413 verses Nehemiah 1211 verses Job 108 verses Psalms 4039 verses Proverbs 1010 verses Ecclesiastes 11 verses Isaiah 2321 verses Jeremiah 1111 verses Ezekiel 65 verses Daniel 44 verses Haggai 11 verses Zechariah 11 verses Malachi 22 verses Matthew 2222 verses Mark 55 verses Luke 2524 verses John 77 verses Acts 11 verses Romans 44 verses 1 Corinthians 43 verses Galatians 33 verses Philippians 11 verses Colossians 11 verses 2 Timothy 11 verses Titus 11 verses Philemon 32 verses Hebrews 11 verses James 11 verses 2 Peter 11 verses Jude 11 verses Revelation 22 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH5288
נַעַר

naʻar · nah'-ar

32 times translated as this KJV form238 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age)

Strong's KJV usage: babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Judges 7:10Strong's last: Nehemiah 6:5

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GreekG3816
παῖς

paîs · paheece

8 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences

a boy (as often beaten with impunity), or (by analogy), a girl, and (genitive case) a child; specially, a slave or servant (especially a minister to a king; and by eminence to God)

Strong's KJV usage: :--child, maid(-en), (man) servant, son, young man.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Matthew 8:6Strong's last: Acts 4:25

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GreekG2324
θεράπων

therápōn · ther-ap'-ohn

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

a menial attendant (as if cherishing)

Strong's KJV usage: :--servant.

Strong's first: Hebrews 3:5Strong's last: Hebrews 3:5

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HebrewH5647
עָבַד

ʻâbad · aw-bad'

1 times translated as this KJV form291 total Strong's occurrences

v

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: Genesis 49:15Strong's last: Genesis 49:15

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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35 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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1 Samuel 25:39
H5650

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

1 Samuel 25:41
H8198

And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

1 Samuel 26:18
H5650

And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?

1 Samuel 26:19
H5650

Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.

1 Samuel 27:5
H5650

And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

1 Samuel 27:12
H5650

And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

1 Samuel 28:2
H5650

And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.

1 Samuel 29:3
H5650

Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?

1 Samuel 29:8
H5650

And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

1 Samuel 30:13
H5650

And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

servant

SERV'ANT, [L. servans, from servo, to keep or hold; properly one that waits, that is, stops, holds, attends, or one that is bound.]

1. A person, male or female, that attends another for the purpose of performing menial offices for him, or who is employed by another for such offices or for other labor, and is subject to his command. The word is correlative to master. Servant differs from slave, as the servant's subjection to a master is voluntary, the slave's is not. Every slave is a servant but every servant is not a slave.

Servants are of various kinds; as household or domestic servants, menial servants; laborers, who are hired by the day, week or other term, and do not reside with their employers, or if they board in the same house, are employed abroad and not in the domestic services; apprentices, who are bound for a term of years to serve a master, for the purpose of learning his trade or occupation.

In a legal sense, stewards, factors, bailifs and other agents, are servants for the time they are employed in such character, as they act in subordination to others.

2. One in a state of subjection.

3.In Scripture, a slave; a bondman; one purchased for money, and who was compelled to serve till the year of jubilee; also, one purchased for a term of years.

4. The subject of a king; as the servants of David or of Saul.

The Syrians became servants to David. 2 Samuel 8:2.

5. A person who voluntarily serves another or acts as his minister; as joshua was the servant of Moses, and the apostles the apostles the servants of Christ. So Christ himself is called a servant, Isaiah 42:1. Moses is called the servant of the Lord, Duet. 34.

6. A person employed or used as an instrument in accomplishing God's purposes of mercy or wrath. So Nebuchadnezzar is called the servant of God. Jeremiah 25:9.

7. One who yields obedience to another. The saints are called servants of God, or of righteousness; and the wicked are called the servants of sin.

8. That which yields obedience, or acts on subordination as an instrument.

9. One that makes painful sacrifices in compliance with the weakness or wants of others.

10. A person of base condition or ignoble spirit.

11. A word of civility. I am, sir, your humble or obedient servant.

Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us to be their slaves. Swift.

Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of servitude.

SERV'ANT, verb transitive To subject. [Not in use.]

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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