Genesis 9:25
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
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Servant
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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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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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עֶבֶד
ʻebed · eh'-bed
360 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: Genesis 9:25Strong's last: Malachi 4:4
Open full H5650 profile →δοῦλος
doûlos · doo'-los
65 times translated as this KJV form139 total Strong's occurrences
a slave (literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary; frequently, therefore in a qualified sense of subjection or subserviency)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bond(-man), servant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 8:9Strong's last: Revelation 1:1
Open full G1401 profile →נַעַר
naʻar · nah'-ar
32 times translated as this KJV form238 total Strong's occurrences
(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
Open full H5288 profile →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
Open full G3816 profile →שָׂכִיר
sâkîyr · saw-keer'
8 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
a man at wages by the day or year
Strong's KJV usage: hired (man, servant), hireling.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 12:45Strong's last: Deuteronomy 24:14
Open full H7916 profile →διάκονος
diákonos · dee-ak'-on-os
4 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
an attendant, i.e. (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties); specially, a Christian teacher and pastor (technically, a deacon or deaconess)
Strong's KJV usage: :--deacon, minister, servant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 23:11Strong's last: Romans 16:1
Open full G1249 profile →שָׁרַת
shârath · shaw-rath'
4 times translated as this KJV form97 total Strong's occurrences
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
Strong's KJV usage: minister (unto), (do) serve(-ant, -ice, -itor), wait on.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 33:11Strong's last: 2 Kings 6:15
Open full H8334 profile →οἰκέτης
oikétēs · oy-ket'-ace
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a fellow resident, i.e. menial domestic
Strong's KJV usage: :--(household) servant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 16:13Strong's last: Romans 14:4
Open full G3610 profile →δουλόω
doulóō · doo-lo'-o
1 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: 1 Corinthians 9:19Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 9:19
Open full G1402 profile →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
Open full G2324 profile →ὁ
ho · ho
1 times translated as this KJV form1,134 total Strong's occurrences
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
Strong's KJV usage: :--the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Strong's first: Revelation 15:3Strong's last: Revelation 15:3
Open full G3588 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: Genesis 49:15Strong's last: Genesis 49:15
Open full H5647 profile →עֲבַד
ʻăbad · ab-bad'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a servant
Strong's KJV usage: servant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 6:20Strong's last: Daniel 6:20
Open full H5649 profile →שִׁפְחָה
shiphchâh · shif-khaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form63 total Strong's occurrences
a female slave (as a member of the household)
Strong's KJV usage: (bond-, hand-) maid(-en, -servant), wench, bondwoman, womanservant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 25:41Strong's last: 1 Samuel 25:41
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H5650
And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
H8334
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
H5650
My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
H5650
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
H5650
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
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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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