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Job 21:15

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4100 What מה

H7706 is the Almighty שׁדי

H3588 that כי

H5647 we should serve נעבדנו

H4100 him and what ומה

H3276 profit נועיל

H3588 should we have if כי

H6293 we pray נפגע׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H4100 What

the

H7706 Almighty

H3588 that

should

H5647 serve

him

and

H4100 what

H3276 profit

should

have

H3588 if

H6293 pray

unto

him

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H5647

Hebrew: עָבַד

Transliteration: ʻâbad

Pronunciation: aw-bad'

Part of Speech: Verb

Bible Usage: X-(idiom) {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.

Definition:

to work (in any sense); by implication to {serve} {till } (causatively) {enslave} etc.

1. to work, serve

a. (Qal)

1. to labour, work, do work

2. to work for another, serve another by labour

3. to serve as subjects

4. to serve (God)

5. to serve (with Levitical service)

b. (Niphal)

1. to be worked, be tilled (of land)

2. to make oneself a servant

c. (Pual) to be worked

d. (Hiphil)

1. to compel to labour or work, cause to labour, cause to serve

2. to cause to serve as subjects

e. (Hophal) to be led or enticed to serve

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906