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
For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
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And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
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And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
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And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
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And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
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For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
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I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
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I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
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Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
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Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
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Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
H5650
And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
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And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
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And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.
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But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.
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But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.
H5650
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
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And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.
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And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
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And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
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And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
H5650
And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
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Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
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Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
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Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
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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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