Genesis 9:25
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
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Servants
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Revelation 22:6
And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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עֶבֶד
ʻebed · eh'-bed
373 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: Zechariah 1:6
Open full H5650 profile →δοῦλος
doûlos · doo'-los
53 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 13:27Strong's last: Revelation 22:6
Open full G1401 profile →נַעַר
naʻar · nah'-ar
22 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: Numbers 22:22Strong's last: Isaiah 37:6
Open full H5288 profile →עֲבַד
ʻăbad · ab-bad'
6 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a servant
Strong's KJV usage: servant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 4:11Strong's last: Daniel 3:28
Open full H5649 profile →ὑπηρέτης
hypērétēs · hoop-ay-ret'-ace
4 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
an under-oarsman, i.e. (generally) subordinate (assistant, sexton, constable)
Strong's KJV usage: :--minister, officer, servant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 26:58Strong's last: John 18:36
Open full G5257 profile →עָבַד
ʻâbad · aw-bad'
4 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,
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 4:9Strong's last: Zechariah 2:9
Open full H5647 profile →διάκονος
diákonos · dee-ak'-on-os
3 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 22:13Strong's last: John 2:9
Open full G1249 profile →δουλόω
doulóō · doo-lo'-o
2 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.
Strong's first: Romans 6:18Strong's last: Romans 6:22
Open full G1402 profile →μίσθιος
místhios · mis'-thee-os
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a wage-earner
Strong's KJV usage: :--hired servant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 15:17Strong's last: Luke 15:19
Open full G3407 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: Acts 10:7Strong's last: 1 Peter 2:18
Open full G3610 profile →παῖς
paîs · paheece
2 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.
Strong's first: Matthew 14:2Strong's last: Luke 15:26
Open full G3816 profile →μισθωτός
misthōtós · mis-tho-tos'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a wage-worker (good or bad)
Strong's KJV usage: :--hired servant, hireling.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 1:20Strong's last: Mark 1:20
Open full G3411 profile →אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh · en-oshe'
1 times translated as this KJV form559 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
Strong's KJV usage: another, × (blood-) thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, × in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some (× of them), stranger, those, their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word. Compare 376.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 24:7Strong's last: 1 Samuel 24:7
Open full H582 profile →עֲבֻדָּה
ʻăbuddâh · ab-ood-daw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
something wrought, i.e. (concretely) service
Strong's KJV usage: household, store of servants.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 26:14Strong's last: Genesis 26:14
Open full H5657 profile →פָּנִים
pânîym · paw-neem'
1 times translated as this KJV form2,083 total Strong's occurrences
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: accept, a-(be-) fore(-time), against, anger, × as (long as), at, battle, because (of), beseech, countenance, edge, employ, endure, enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, × him(-self), honourable, impudent, in, it, look(-eth) (-s), × me, meet, × more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), × on, open, out of, over against, the partial, person, please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, regard, right forth, serve, × shewbread, sight, state, straight, street, × thee, × them(-selves), through ( -out), till, time(-s) past, (un-) to(-ward), upon, upside ( down), with(-in, -stand), × ye, × you.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 18:9Strong's last: 2 Samuel 18:9
Open full H6440 profile →שָׁרַת
shârath · shaw-rath'
1 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: Proverbs 29:12Strong's last: Proverbs 29:12
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H5650
My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
H5650
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
H5650
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
H5650
It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
H5650
And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
H5650
That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
H5650
And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.
H5650
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
H5650
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
H5650
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
H5650
And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
H5650
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
H5650
And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
H5650
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
H5650
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
H5650
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
H5650
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
H5650
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
H5650
And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
H5650
And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
H5650
And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
H5650
And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
H5650
And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
H5650
And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?
H5650
And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
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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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