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
And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
H5650
And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
H5650
And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
H5650
And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
H5650
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
H5650
And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
H5650
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
H6440
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
H5650
And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
H5650
In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
H5650
Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
H5650
And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.
H5650
And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
H5650
And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
H5650
Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
H5650
These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
H5650
And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
H5650
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
H5650
And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:
H5650
The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
H5650
And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.
H5650
And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
H5650
And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
H5650
And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
H5650
And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
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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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