Definition

work of any kind

Etymology

or עֲבוֹדָה; from H5647 (עָבַד);

Where the KJV renders it

• act
• bondage
• bondservant
• effect
• labour
• ministering(-try)
• office
• service(-ile
• -itude)
• tillage
• use
• work
• wrought

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.