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SERVANT

sur'-vant ('ebhedh; doulos): A very common word with a variety of meanings, all implying a greater or less degree of inferiority and want of freedom:

(1) The most frequent usage is as the equivalent of "slave" (which see), with its various shades in position (Genesis 9:25; Genesis 24:9 Exodus 21:5 Matthew 10:24 Luke 17:7, and often); but also a hired workman where "hired servant" translates Hebrew and Greek expressions which differ from the above.

(2) An attendant in the service of someone, as Joshua was the "servant" the Revised Version (British and American) "minister" of Moses (Numbers 11:28).

(3) As a 'term of respectful self-depreciation referring to one's self, "thy servant." or "your servant" is used in place of the personal pronoun of the first person:

(a) in the presence of superiors (Genesis 19:2; Genesis 32:18, and often);

(b) in addressing the Supreme Being (1 Samuel 3:9 Psalm 19:11; Psalm 27:9 Luke 2:29, and often).

(4) Officials of every grade are called the "servants" of kings, princes, etc. (1 Samuel 29:3 2 Samuel 16:1 1 Kings 11:26 Proverbs 14:35, and often).

(5) The position of a king in relation to his people (1 Kings 12:7).

(6) One who is distinguished as obedient and faithful to God or Christ (Joshua 1:2 2 Kings 8:19 Daniel 6:20 Colossians 4:12 2 Timothy 2:24). (7) One who is enslaved by sin (John 8:34).

William Joseph Mcglothlin

SERVANT OF JEHOVAH; SERVANT OF THE LORD; SERVANT OF YAHWEH

" 1. Historical Situation

2. The Authorship of Isaiah, Chapters 40-66

3. The Prophet of the Exile

4. The Unity of Isaiah 40-66

5. Principal Ideas of Isaiah 40-66

6. The Servant-Passages

(1) Date of the Servant-Passages

(2) Discussion of the Passages

(3) Whom Did the Prophet Mean by the Servant?

(4) The Psychology of the Prophecy

7. Place of the Servant-Passages in Old Testament Prophecy

8. Large Messianic Significance of the Servant-Passages

1. Historical Situation:

A century and a half had passed since the great days of Isaiah in Jerusalem. The world had vastly changed during those long decades when politicians had planned, armies surged back and forth, and tribes and nations had lost or won in the struggle for existence, place and power. The center of the world had changed-for Assyria had gone to its long home, and the city claiming preeminence was not Nineveh but Babylon.

Nowhere perhaps had time laid a heavier hand than on the city of Jerusalem and the country of Judah. For city and land had come to desolation, and the inhabitants of the country had become familiar with the strange sights and sounds of Babylonia, whither they had been carried by their conquerors. Many had found graves in the land of the exile, and new generations had arisen who had no memory of the hill country of their fathers. It is the situation of these captive Jews in Babylonia which is reflected and they who are addressed at the waning of the long night of captivity by the stirring message recorded in Isaiah 40-66 (leaving out of account here disputed passages in Isaiah 40-66).

2. The Authorship of Isaiah, Chapters 40-66:

The more one studies the problem of the authorship of these chapters, the more unlikely does it seem that their author penned them 150 years before the time with which they are vitally connected. It is obviously impossible to treat that problem in a detailed way here, but one may sum up the arguments by saying that in theological ideas, in style, and use of words they show such differences from the assured productions of Isaiah's pen as to point to a different authorship. And the great argument, the argument which carries the most weight to the author of this article, is that these late chapters are written from the standpoint of the exile. The exile is assumed in what is said. These chapters do not prophesy the exile, do not say it is to come; they all the time speak as though it had come. The message is not that an exile is to be, but beginning with the fact that the exile already is, it foretells deliverance. Now of course it is conceivable that God might inspire a man to put himself forward 150 years, and with a message to people who were to live then, assuming their circumstances as a background of what he said, but it is improbable to the last degree. To put it in plain, almost gruff, English, it is not the way God did things. The prophet's message was always primarily a message to his own age. Then there is no claim in the chapters themselves that Isaiah was their author. And having once been placed so that it was supposed they were by Isaiah-placed so through causes we do not know-the fact that in speaking of passages from these chapters New Testament authors referred to them by a name the people would recognize, is not a valid argument that they meant to teach anything as to their authorship. The problem had not arisen in New Testament times. Isaiah 40-66, as Professor Davidson has suggested, has a parallel in the Book of Job, each the production of a great mind, each from an author we do not know.

Compare ISAIAH.

3. The Prophet of the Exile:

Out of the deep gloom of the exile-when the Jew was a man without a country, when it seemed as if the nation's sins had murdered hope-out of this time comes the voice most full of gladness and abounding hope of all the voices from the Old Testament life. In the midst of the proud, confident civilization of Babylonia, with its teeming wealth and exhaustless splendor, came a man who dared to speak for Yahweh-a man of such power to see reality that to him Babylonia was already doomed, and he could summon the people to prepare for God's deliverance.

4. The Unity of Isaiah 40-66:

In recent criticism, especially in Germany, there has been a strong tendency to assign the last chapters of this section to a different author from the first. The background it is claimed is not Babylonian; the sins rebuked are the sins of the people when at home in Judea, and in at least one passage the temple at Jerusalem seems to be standing. That these chapters present difficulties need not be disputed, but it seems to me that again and again in them one can find the hand of Second Isaiah. Then undoubtedly the author quotes from previous prophecies which we can recognize, and the suggestion that some of the difficult passages may be quotations from other older prophecies which are not preserved to us, I think an exceedingly good one. The quotation of such passages in view of the prospect of return, and the prophet's feeling of the need of the people, would seem to me not at all unnatural. If a later hand is responsible for some utterances in the latter part of the section, it seems to me fairly clear that most of it is from the hand of the great unknown prophet of the exile.

The questions regarding the Servant-passages as affecting the unity of the book will be treated later.

5. Principal Ideas of Isaiah 40-66:

The first part of this section vividly contrasts Yahweh and the idols worshipped with such splendor and ceremony. All the resources of irony and satire are used to give point and effect to the contrast. Cyrus the Median conqueror is already on the horizon, and he is declared to be God's instrument in the deliverance. The idols are described in process of manufacture; they are addressed in scornful apostrophe, they are seen carried away helpless. On the other side Yahweh, with illimitable foresight and indomitable strength, knows and reveals the future. They know and reveal nothing. He brings to pass what He has planned. They do nothing. Not only the idols but Babylonia itself is made the victim of satire-and the prophet hurls a taunt song at the proud but impotent city.

Israel-the people of Yahweh-the elect of God-is given the prophet's message. The past is called up as a witness to Yahweh's dealings. His righteousness-His faithfulness to His people-shall not fail. They are unworthy, but out of His own bounty salvation is provided. And with joy of this salvation from exile and from sin the book rings and rings. The Zion of the restored Israel is pictured with all the play of color and richness of imagery at the prophet's command. And this restored Israel is to have a world-mission. Its light is to fall upon all lands. It is to minister salvation to all races of men.

But back of and under these pictures of great hope is the prophet's sense of his people's sin and their struggle with it. In the latter part of the book, especially Isaiah 59 and 64 this comes out clearly. And the mood of these chapters expresses the feeling out of which some of the deep things of the Servant-passages came. There is no need to insist that the chapters as they stand are in the order in which they were written. We know from other prophecies that this was not always true. But even if a man were convinced that the chapters now occurring after the Servant-passages were all written after them, he could still hold, and I think would be justified in holding, that in places in those chapters the reader finds the record of a state of the prophet's mind before the writing of those passages. The former view would be, I think, the preferable one. At any rate the point of view is logically that out of which some of the deep things in the Servant-passages came.

In profoundness of meaning the climax of the book is reached in these passages where the deliverance from exile and the deliverance from sin are connected with one great figure-the Servant of Yahweh.

6. The Servant-Passages:

The word "servant," as applied to servants of God, is not an unfamiliar one to readers of the Old Testament. It is applied to different individuals and by Jeremiah to the nation (compare Jeremiah 30:10; Jeremiah 46:27); but its message is on the whole so distinct and complete in Second Isaiah that we can study it without any further reference to previous usage.

The "servant" first appears in Isaiah 41:8. Here the reference is undoubtedly to Israel, chosen and called of God and to be upheld by Him. Here Israel is promised victory over its enemies. In vivid picture their destruction and Isracl's future trust and glory in God are portrayed.

There are several incidental references to Israel as Yahweh's servant: created by Yahweh and not to be forgotten (Isaiah 41:8); Cyrus is said to be called for the sake of His servant Jacob (Isaiah 45:4); Yahweh is said to have redeemed His servant Jacob (Isaiah 48:20).

In Isaiah 44:26 "servant" seems to be used with the meaning of prophet. It is said of Yahweh that He "confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers."

In Isaiah 42:19 we find the failure and inadequacy of Israel presented in the words, "Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send?" This passage is an explanation of the exile. Israel proved unworthy and sinned, hence, its punishment, but even in the exile the lesson had not been taken to heart.

In Isaiah 43:8 ff; Yahweh summons Israel the servant, who in spite of blindness and deafness yet is His witness. It has at least seen enough to be able to witness for Him in the presence of the heathen.

In Isaiah 44:1-5, leaving the unworthiness of the actual Israel, there comes what seems to me a summons in the name of the possible, the ideal. The underlying thought is a call to the high future which God has ready to give.

This covers the reference to the servant outside the great Servant-passages to which we now come. There are four of these: Isaiah 42:1-9; Isaiah 49:1-9 a; 50:4-11; 52:13-53:12; 61:1-4 perhaps represents words of the Servant, but may refer to words of the prophet, and, as at any rate it adds no new features to the picture of the Servant already given in the passages undoubtedly referring to him, we will not discuss it.

(1) Date of the Servant-Passages.

Ewald long ago suggested that the last of the Servant-passages must have been borrowed from an earlier composition, which he assigned to the age of Manasseh. "If we find in the study of the passage reason for its vividness, we shall not need to seek its origin in the description of some past martyrdom."

Duhm quoted by Cheyne thinks the Servant-passages post-exilic. The gentleness and quiet activity of the Servant for one thing, according to Duhm, suggest the age of the scribes, rather than that of the exile. But might not an age of suffering be a time to learn the lesson of gentleness? According to Skinner, Duhm thinks the passages were inserted almost haphazard, but Skinner also refers to Kosters, showing that the passages cannot be lifted without carrying some of the succeeding verses with them. This is particularly significant in view of the recent popularity of other theories which deny the Servant-passages to the hand and time of Second Isaiah. The theory that these passages form by themselves a poem or a set of poems which have been inserted here can boast of distinguished names.

There does not seem much to commend it, however. As to the argument from difference as to rhythm, there is disagreement, and the data are probably not of a sort to warrant much significance being applied to it either way. The fact that the passages are not always a part of connected movement of thought would play great havoc if made a universal principle of discrimination as to authorship in the prophecies of the Old Testament. If we succeed in giving the fundamental ideas of the passages a place in relation to the thought of Deutero-Isaiah, an argument for which cogency might be claimed will be dissipated. But even at its best this argument would not be conclusive. To deny certain ideas to an author simply because he has not expressed them in a certain bit of writing acknowledged to him is perilous business. A message of hope surely does not preclude an appreciation of the dark things.

The truth of the matter is that even by great scholars the temptation to a criticism of knight-errantry is not always resisted. And I think we shall not make any mistake in believing that this is the case with the attempt to throw doubt upon the Deutero-Isaianic authorship of the Servant-passages.

(2) Discussion of the Passages.

Isaiah 42:1-9: In these verses Yahweh Himself is the speaker, describing the Servant as His chosen, in whom His soul delights, upon whom He has put His spirit. He is to bring justice to the Gentiles. His methods are to be quiet and gentle, and the very forlorn hope of goodness He will not quench. He is to set justice in the earth, and remote countries are described as waiting for His law. Then comes a declaration by the prophet that Yahweh, the Creator of all, is the speaker of words declaring the Servant's call in righteousness to be a covenant for the people, a light to the Gentiles, a helper to those in need-the blind and imprisoned. Yahweh's glory is not to be given to other, nor His praise to graven images. Former prophecies have come to pass. New things He now declares. One's attention needs to be called to the distinction of the Servant from Israel in this passage. He is to be a covenant of the people: according to Delitzsch, "he in whom and through whom Yahweh makes a new covenant with His people in place of the old one that has been broken."

Isaiah 49:1-9 a; Here the Servant himself spoaks, telling of his calling from the beginning of his life, of the might of his word, of his shelter in God, of a time of discouragement in which he thought his labor in vain, followed by insistence on his trust in God. Then Yahweh promises him a larger mission than the restoration of Israel, namely, to be a light to the Gentiles. Yahweh speaks of the Servant as one despised, yet to be triumphant so that he will be honored by kings and princes. He is to lead his people forth at their restoration, "to make them inherit the desolate heritages; saying to them that are bound, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves."

Clearly the Servant is distinct from the people Israel in this passage. Yet in Isaiah 49:3 he is addressed as Israel. The word Israel here may be a gloss, which would solve the difficulty, or the Servant may be addressed as Israel because he gathers up in himself the meaning of the ideal Israel. If it is true that the prophet gradually passed from the conception of Israel as a nation to a person through whom its true destiny would be realized, this last suggestion would gain in probability.

One notices here the emphasis on the might of the Servant, and in this passage we come to understand that he is to pass through a time of ignominy. The phrase "a servant of rulers" is a difficult one, which would be clear if the prophet conceived of him as one of the exiles, and typically representing them. The Servant's mission in this passage seems quite bound up with the restoration.

Isaiah 50:4-11: In the first part of this passage the Servant is not mentioned directly, but it seems clear that he is speaking. He is taught of God continually, that he may bring a message to the weary. He has opened his ear so that he may fully understand Yahweh's message. The Servant now describes his sufferings as coming to him because of his obedience. He was not rebellious and did not turn back from his mission. Flint-like he set his face and with confidence in God met the shame which came upon him. After language vivid with a sense of ignominy his assured consciousness of victory and faith in God are expressed,.

In Isaiah 50:10-11, according to Delitzsch, Yahweh speaks, first encouraging those who listen to the Servant, then addressing those who despise his word. Cheyne thinks the Servant mentioned in 50:10 may be the prophet, but I prefer Delitzsch's view.

Isaiah 52:13-53:12: The present division of 52:13-53:12 is unfortunate, for obviously it is all of a piece and ought to stand together in one chapter.

In Isaiah 52:13-15 Yahweh speaks of the humiliation and later of the exaltation of the Servant. He shall deal wisely-the idea here including the success resulting from wisdom-and shall be exalted. Words are piled upon each other here to express his exaltation. But the appearance of the Servant is such as to suggest the very opposite of his dignity, which will astonish nations and kings when they come, to understand it.

Entering upon Isaiah 53 we find the people of Israel speaking confessing their former unbelief, and giving as a reason the repulsive aspect of the Servant-despised, sad, sick with a visage to make men turn from him. He is described as though he had been a leper. They thought all this had come upon him as a stroke from God, but they now see how he went even to death, not for his own transgression but for theirs. Their peace and healing came through his suffering and death. They have been sinful and erring; the result of it all God has caused to light upon him.

They look back in wonder at the way he bore his sufferings-like a lamb led to the slaughter; with a false judicial procedure he was led away, no one considering his death, or its relation to them. His grave even was an evidence of ignominy.

Beginning at Isaiah 53:10 the people cease speaking, according to Delitzsch, and the prophecy becomes the organ of God who acknowledges His Servant. The reference to a trespass offering in 53:10 is remarkable. Nowhere else is prophecy so connected with the sacrificial system (A. B. Davidson). It pleased God to bruise the Servant-his soul having been made a trespass offering; the time of humiliation over, the time of exaltation will come.

By his knowledge we are told-here a momentary reversion to the time of humiliation taking place-by his knowledge he shall justify many and bear their iniquities. Then comes the exaltation-dividing of spoils and greatness-the phrases suggesting kingly glory: all this is to be his because of his suffering. The great fact of Isaiah 53 is vicarious suffering.

(3) Whom Did the Prophet Mean by the Servant?

(a) Obviously not all of Israel always, for the Servant is distinguished from Israel. (b) Not the godly remnant, for he is distinguished from them. Then the godly remnant does not attain to any such proportions as to fit the description of Isaiah 53. (c) And one cannot accept theory that the prophetic order is intended. The whole order is not great enough to exhaust the meaning of one of a half-dozen of the greatest lines in chapter 53.

Professor A. B. Davidson's Old Testament Prophecy contains a brilliant and exceedingly able discussion of the question which he approaches from the stand-point of Biblical rather than simply exegetical theology. His fundamental position is that in the prophet's outlook the restoration is the consummation. In his mind the Servant and his work cannot come after the restoration. The Servant, if a real person, must be one whose work lies in the past or the present, as there is not room in the future for him, for the restoration which is at the door brings felicity, and after that no sufferings of the Servant are conceivable. But there is no actual person in the past and none in the present who could be the Servant. Hence, the Servant cannot be to the prophet's mind a real person.

SeeCONIAH.

Of course Davidson relates the result to his larger conception of prophecy in such a way as to secure the Messianic significance of the passages in relation to their fulfillment in our Lord. The ideas they contain are realized in Him.

But coming back to the prophet's mind-if the Servant was not a person to him, what significance did he have? The answer according to Davidson is, He is a great personification of the ideal Israel. "He is Israel according to its idea." To quote more fully, "The prophet has created out of the divine determinations imposed on Israel, election, creation and forming, endowment with the word or spirit of Yahweh, and the divine purpose in these operations, an ideal Being, an inner Israel in the heart of the phenomenal or actual Israel, an indestructible Being having these divine attributes or endowments, present in the outward Israel in all ages, powerful and effectual because really composed, if I can say so, of divine forces, who cannot fail in God's purpose, and who as an inner power within Israel by his operation causes all Israel to become a true servant" (compare Davidson, Old Testament Prophecy, 435-36).

Now it seems to me that Davidson is more effective in his destructive than in his constructive work. One must confess that he presents real difficulties in the way of holding to a personal Servant as the prophet's conception. But on the other hand when he tries to replace that by a more adequate conception, I do not think he conspicuously succeeds.

The greatest of the Servant-passages (it seems to me) presents more than can be successfully dealt with under the conception of the Servant as the ideal Israel. The very great emphasis on vicarious suffering in Isaiah 53 simply is not answered by theory. Words would not leap with such a flame of reality in describing the suffering of a personification. The sense of sin back of the passage is not a thing whose problem could be solved by a glittering figure of speech. There it surges-the movement of an aroused conscience-and the answer to it could never be anything less than a real deed by a real person. My own feeling is that if language can express anything it expresses the fact that the prophet had a real personal Servant in view.

But what of the difficulties Davidson suggests? Even if the answer were not easy to find, one could rest on the total impression the passages make. One cannot vaporize a passage for the sake of placing it in an environment in which one believes it belongs. As Cheyne in other days said, "In the sublimest descriptions of the Servant I am unable to resist the impression that we have the presentment of an individual, and venture to think that our general view of the Servant ought to be ruled by those passages in which the enthusiasm of the author is at its height."

The first thing we need to remember in dealing with the difficulties Davidson has brought forth is the timelessness of prophecy, and the resulting fact that every prophet saw the future as if lying just on the horizon of his own time. As prophets saw the day of Yahweh as if at hand, so it seems to me Deutero-Isaiah saw the Servant: each really afar off, yet each really seen in the colors of the present. Then we must remember that the prophets did not relate all their conceptions. They stated truths whose meaning and articulation they did not understand. They were not philosophers with a Hegelian hunger for a total view of life, and when we try to read them from this standpoint we misjudge them. Then we must remember that the prophet may here have been lifted to a height of prophetic receptivehess where he received and uttered what went beyond the limits of his own understanding. To be sure there was a point of contact, but I see no objection to the thought that in a place of unique significance and importance like this, God might use a man to utter words which reached far beyond the limits of his own understanding. In this connection some words of Professor Hermann Schultz are worth quoting: "If it is true anywhere in the history of poetry and prophecy, it is true here that the writer being full of the spirit has said more than he himself meant to say and more than he himself understood."

(4) The Psychology of the Prophecy.

This does not mean that something may. not be said about the connection of the Servant-passages with the prophet's own thought. Using Delitzsch's illustration, we can see how from regarding all Israel as the servant the prophet could narrow down to the godly part of Israel as experience taught him the faithlessness of many, and it ought not to be impossible for us to see how all that Israel really meant at its best could have focused itself in his thought upon one person. Despite Davidson's objection, I can see nothing artificial about this movement in the prophet's mind. There was probably more progression in his thought than Professor Davidson is willing to allow. If it is asked, Where was the person to whom the prophet could ascribe such greatness, conceiving as he did that he was to come at once? surely a similar question would be fair in relation to Isaiah's Messiah. The truth is that even on the threshold of the restoration there was time for a great one suddenly to arise. As John the Baptist on the Jordan watched for the coming One whom he knew not, yet who was alive, so the great prophet of the exile may have watched even day by day for the coming Servant whose work had been revealed to him.

But deep in the psychology of the prophecy is the sense of sin out of which these passages came and indications of which I think are found in the latter part of the book. The great guilt-laden past lay terribly behind the prophet, and as he mused over the sufferings of the righteous, perhaps especially drawn to tim heart-rent Jeremiah, the thought of redemptive suffering may have dawned upon him. And if in its light, and with a personal sense of sin drawn from what experiences we know not, he grapples with the problem, can we not understand, can we not see that God might flash upon him the great conception of a sin-bearer?

7. Place of the Servant-Passages in Old Testament Prophecy:

At last the idea of vicarious suffering had been connected with the deep things of the nation's life, and henceforward was a part of its heritage. To the profoundest souls it would be a part of the nation's forward look. The priestly idea had been deepened and filled with new moral meaning. The Servant was a prophet too-so priest and prophet met in one. And I think Cheyne was right when he suggested that in the Servant's exaltation in Isaiah 53, the idea of the Servant is brought nearer to that of king than we sometimes think. So in suggestion, at least, prophet, priest and king meet in the great figure of the suffering Servant.

A new rich stream had entered into prophecy, full of power to fertilize whatever shores of thought it touched. In the thoughts of these passages prophecy seemed pressing with impatient eagerness to its goal, and though centuries were to pass before that goal was reached, its promise is seen here, full of assurance and of knowledge of the kind of goal it is to be.

8. Larger Messianic Significance of the Servant-Passages:

But whatever our view of the meaning of the prophet, we must agree (compare Matthew 8:17; Matthew 12:18-21; 26:67 John 12:41, et al.) that the conception he so boldly and powerfully put upon his canvas had its realization, its fulfillment in the One who spoke to the world from the cross on Calvary. And in its darkly glorious shadow the Christian, with all the sadness and joy and wonder of it, with a sense of its solving all his problems and meeting the deepest needs and outreaches of his life, can feel a strange companionship with the exilic prophet whose yearning for a sin-bearer and belief in His coming call across the long and slowly moving years. In the light and penetration of that hour he may be trusted to know what the prophet meant. Professor Delitzsch well said of that passage, "Every word is as it were written under the cross at Golgotha."

Lynn Harold Hough

JEHOVAH, SERVANT OF

See SERVANT OF JEHOVAH.

Greek

3011. leitourgos -- a public servant, a minister, a servant
... a public servant, a minister, a servant. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: leitourgos Phonetic Spelling: (li-toorg-os') Short Definition: ...
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4889. sundoulos -- a fellow servant
... a fellow servant. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: sundoulos Phonetic
Spelling: (soon'-doo-los) Short Definition: a fellow servant, colleague ...
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1249. diakonos -- a servant, minister
... a servant, minister. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine; Noun, Masculine Transliteration:
diakonos Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ak'-on-os) Short Definition: a waiter ...
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3411. misthotos -- hired, a hired servant
... hired, a hired servant. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: misthotos
Phonetic Spelling: (mis-tho-tos') Short Definition: a hired servant Definition ...
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5257. huperetes -- an underling, servant
... an underling, servant. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: huperetes
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-ay-ret'-ace) Short Definition: a servant, an ...
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3407. misthios -- a hired servant
... a hired servant. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: misthios Phonetic Spelling:
(mis'-thee-os) Short Definition: a paid worker Definition: a paid worker ...
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3610b. oiketes -- a house servant
... a house servant. Transliteration: oiketes Short Definition: servant. Word Origin
from oikeo Definition a house servant NASB Word Usage servant (2), servants (2) ...
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4498. Rhode -- Rhoda, a servant girl
... Rhoda, a servant girl. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Rhode Phonetic
Spelling: (hrod'-ay) Short Definition: Rhoda Definition: Rhoda, a ...
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3816. pais -- a child, boy, youth
... Transliteration: pais Phonetic Spelling: (paheece) Short Definition: a boy or girl
child Definition: (a) a male child, boy, (b) a male slave, servant; thus: a ...
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2324. therapon -- an attendant
... an attendant. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: therapon Phonetic
Spelling: (ther-ap'-ohn) Short Definition: a servant, attendant Definition: a ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5650. ebed -- slave, servant
... 5649, 5650. ebed. 5651 . slave, servant. Transliteration: ebed Phonetic
Spelling: (eh'-bed) Short Definition: servants. Word Origin ...
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5649. abad -- slave, servant
... abad. 5650 . slave, servant. Transliteration: abad Phonetic Spelling: (ab-bad')
Short Definition: servants. ... servant. (Aramaic) from abad; a servant -- servant. ...
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1522. Gechazi -- perhaps "valley of vision," servant of Elisha
... perhaps "valley of vision," servant of Elisha. Transliteration: Gechazi or Gechazi
Phonetic Spelling: (gay-khah-zee') Short Definition: Gehazi. ...
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5663. Ebed Melek -- "servant of a king," an official under King ...
... "servant of a king," an official under King Zedekiah. Transliteration: Ebed Melek
Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-bed meh'-lek) Short Definition: Ebed-melech. ...
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5661. Abdiel -- "servant of God," a Gadite
... 5660, 5661. Abdiel. 5662 . "servant of God," a Gadite. Transliteration: Abdiel
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-dee-ale') Short Definition: Abdiel. ...
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912. Bedeyah -- "servant of Yah," an Israelite
... Bedeyah. 913 . "servant of Yah," an Israelite. Transliteration: Bedeyah Phonetic
Spelling: (bay-de-yaw') Short Definition: Bedeiah. Word Origin short. ...
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6717. Tsiba -- a servant in Saul's house
... 6716b, 6717. Tsiba or Tsiba. 6718 . a servant in Saul's house. Transliteration:
Tsiba or Tsiba Phonetic Spelling: (tsee-baw') Short Definition: Ziba. ...
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5655. Abdeel -- "servant of God," a man of Judah
... 5654, 5655. Abdeel. 5656 . "servant of God," a man of Judah. Transliteration:
Abdeel Phonetic Spelling: (ab-deh-ale') Short Definition: Abdeel. ...
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5664. Abed Nego -- "servant of Nebo," Bab. name of one of Daniel's ...
Abed Nego. 5663, 5664. Abed Nego. 5665 . "servant of Nebo," Bab. ... Word
Origin of foreign origin Definition "servant of Nebo," Bab. ...
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5651. Ebed -- "servant," two Israelites
... "servant," two Israelites. Transliteration: Ebed Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-bed) Short
Definition: Ebed. Word Origin from abad Definition "servant," two Isr. ...
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The Unmerciful Servant.
... THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT. A certain King took account of his servants and
began to reckon what they owed him. And there was brought ...
/.../anonymous/mother stories from the new testament/the unmerciful servant.htm

The Suffering Servant-I
... THE SUFFERING SERVANT-I. ... To hold fast the fulfilment of this prophecy of the Suffering
Servant in Jesus it is not necessary to deny its reference to Israel. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the suffering servant-i.htm

The Servant of the Lord
... THE SERVANT OF THE LORD. 'Unto you first God, having raised up His Son
Jesus, sent Him to bless you, In turning away every one of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/the servant of the lord.htm

The Servant and the Slaves
... THE SERVANT AND THE SLAVES. 'Thy servant David...'; Thy Holy Servant
Jesus...'; Thy servants...'"Acts 4:26, 27, 29. I do not ...
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The Servant-Lord
... VOLUME I: ST. LUKE Chaps. I to XII THE SERVANT-LORD. ... I. Then we have, first
of all, the wonderful revelation of the Servant-Lord. ...
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The Suffering Servant --V
... THE SUFFERING SERVANT"V. 'He shall see of the travail of His soul, and
shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shall My righteous ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the suffering servantv.htm

The Honored Servant
... The Honored Servant. A Sermon (No.2643) Intended for Reading on Lord's Day,
October 8th 1899, delivered by CH Spurgeon at the Metropolitan ...
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The Servant-Master
... THE SERVANT-MASTER. 'Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things
into His hands, and that He was come from God, and went to ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/the servant-master.htm

A Servant of Men
... V) A SERVANT OF MEN. 'For though I be free from all men, yet have I made
myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.20. ...
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The Suffering Servant --iv
... THE SUFFERING SERVANT"IV. 'It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put
Him to grief: when Thou shalt make His soul an offering ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the suffering servantiv.htm

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Servant

[SLAVE]

ATS Bible Dictionary

Servant

This word sometimes denotes a man who voluntarily dedicates himself to the service of another. Thus Joshua was the servant of Moses; Elisha of Elijah; and Peter, Andrew, Philip, and Paul were servants of Jesus Christ. The servants of Pharaoh, of Saul, and of David, were their subjects in general, and their court officers and counselors in particular. The Philistines, Syrians, and other nation were servants of David, that is, they obeyed and paid him tribute. The servants of God are those who are devoted to his service and obey his holy word.

In its primary sense, the word usually means in the Bible either a hired servant, or one whose service was the property of his master for a limited time and under various restrictions. Joseph is the first whom we read of as sold into bondage, Genesis 37:27,28. The households of some of the early patriarchs contained many servants, who were apparently treated with kindness and justice; the highest trusts were sometimes confided to them, and they might inherit their master's estate, Genesis 14:11-16 15:2-4 24:1-10. They shared the religious privileges of the household, Genesis 17:9-13,27 18:19, and were not transferred to other masters.

At the establishment of the Hebrew commonwealth, involuntary servitude was everywhere prevalent; and so far as it existed among the Jews, Moses sought to bring it under the restrictions demanded by religion and humanity. The mildest form of bond-service was that of a Hebrew in the house of another Hebrew. He might become bound to this service in various ways, chiefly through poverty, Exodus 21:7 Le 25:39-47; to acquit himself of a debt he could not otherwise pay, 2 Kings 4:1; to make restitution for a theft, Exodus 22:3; or to earn the price of his ransom for captivity among heathen. This form of service could not continue more than six or seven years; unless, when the Sabbatical year came round, the servant chose to remain permanently or until the Jubilee with his master, in token of which he suffered his ear to be bored before witnesses, Exodus 21:2,6 25:40. The Hebrews servant was not to be made to serve with rigor, nor transferred to any harder bondage; he had an appeal to the tribunals, a right to all religious privileges, the power of demanding release on providing a pecuniary equivalent, and a donation from his master at his release, Le 25:47-55 De 15:12-18. Compare also 2 Chronicles 28:10,11 Nehemiah 5:1-13 Jeremiah 34:8-22. The law likewise provided for the deliverance of a Hebrew, who was in bondage to a resident foreigner, Le 25:47-54.

From the heathen around and among them, especially from their captive enemies and the remains of the Canaanites, the Hebrew obtained many servants. These were protected by law, De 1:16,17 27:19, and might become proselytes, attend the festivals, enjoy religious instruction and privileges, Exodus 12:44 De 12:18 29:10-13 31:10-13. The servant who was mutilated by his master was to be set free, Exodus 21:26,27; the refugee from foreign oppression was to be welcomed, De 23:15,16; and kidnapping or man stealing was forbidden on pain of death, Exodus 21:16 De 24:7 1 Timothy 1:10.

Roman slavery, as it existed in the time of Christ, was comparatively unknown to the Jews. The Romans held in bondage captives taken in war, had purchased slaves. Their bondage was perpetual, and the master held unquestioned control of the person and life of his slaves. Yet large numbers were set free, and in many instances Roman freedmen rose to the highest honors.

The allusion of the Bible to involuntary servitude, imply that it is an evil and undesirable condition of life; yet the bondman who cannot obtain his freedom is divinely exhorted to contentment, 1 1 Corinthians 7:20-24. Meanwhile the Bible give directions as to the mutual duties of masters and servants, Ephesians 6:5-9 Colossians 3:22 4:1 Tit 2:9 Philemon 1:1-25 1 Peter 2:18; and proclaims the great truths of the common origin of all men, the immorality of every human soul, and its right to the Bible and to all necessary means of knowing and serving the Saviorthe application of which to all the relations of master and servant, superior and inferior, employer and employed, would prevent all oppression, which God abhors, De 24:14 Psalm 103:6 Isaiah 10:1-3 Am 4:1 Mal 3:5 James 5:4.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.

2. (n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.

3. (n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.

4. (v. t.) To subject.

Thesaurus

Servant (738 Occurrences)
...SERVANT. ... (2) An attendant in the service of someone, as Joshua was the "servant"
the Revised Version (British and American) "minister" of Moses (Numbers 11:28). ...
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Woman-servant (12 Occurrences)
Woman-servant. Woman's, Woman-servant. Womb . Multi-Version
Concordance Woman-servant (12 Occurrences). Luke 22:56 And ...
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Man-servant (18 Occurrences)
Man-servant. Manservant, Man-servant. Manservants . Multi-Version
Concordance Man-servant (18 Occurrences). Genesis ...
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Servant-girl (18 Occurrences)
Servant-girl. Servant, Servant-girl. Servant-girls . Multi-Version
Concordance Servant-girl (18 Occurrences). Matthew 26:69 Now ...
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Servant-girls (12 Occurrences)
Servant-girls. Servant-girl, Servant-girls. Servants . Multi-Version
Concordance Servant-girls (12 Occurrences). Mark ...
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Servant-wife (12 Occurrences)
Servant-wife. Servant's, Servant-wife. Servant-wives . Multi-Version
Concordance Servant-wife (12 Occurrences). Judges 8:31 And ...
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Wine-servant (8 Occurrences)
Wine-servant. Wines, Wine-servant. Wine-servants . Multi-Version
Concordance Wine-servant (8 Occurrences). Genesis 40 ...
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Servant-woman (7 Occurrences)
Servant-woman. Servant-wives, Servant-woman. Servant-women . Multi-Version
Concordance Servant-woman (7 Occurrences). Galatians ...
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Servant's (29 Occurrences)
...Servant's (29 Occurrences). ... (WEY). John 18:10 Simon Peter therefore, having a sword,
drew it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. ...
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Bond-servant (14 Occurrences)
Bond-servant. Bondservant, Bond-servant. Bondservants .
Multi-Version Concordance Bond-servant (14 Occurrences). Luke ...
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Bible Concordance

Servant (738 Occurrences)

Matthew 4:10 Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.
(BBE)

Matthew 6:24 "No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.
(Root in WEY BBE)

Matthew 8:6 and saying, "Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 8:8 The centurion answered, "Lord, I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 8:9 For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one,'Go,' and he goes; and tell another,'Come,' and he comes; and tell my servant,'Do this,' and he does it."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT NIV)

Matthew 8:13 Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed." His servant was healed in that hour.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 10:24 "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 10:25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 11:10 This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.
(BBE)

Matthew 12:18 "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 18:26 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying,'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 18:27 The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 18:28 "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying,'Pay me what you owe!'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 18:29 "So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying,'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 18:32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him,'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 18:33 Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 20:26 It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.
(WEB WEY BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 20:27 Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS YLT)

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
(Root in BBE)

Matthew 23:11 But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 24:45 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 24:46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 24:48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart,'My lord is delaying his coming,'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 24:50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:21 "His lord said to him,'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:23 "His lord said to him,'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:26 "But his lord answered him,'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 26:51 Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NIV)

Matthew 26:69 Peter meanwhile was sitting outside in the court of the palace, when one of the maidservants came over to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean."
(Root in WEY BBE NAS NIV)

Mark 1:2 Even as it is said in the book of Isaiah the prophet, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way;
(BBE)

Mark 9:35 He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 10:43 But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
(WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 10:44 Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Mark 10:45 For truly the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
(Root in BBE)

Mark 12:2 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Mark 12:4 Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Mark 14:47 But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NIV)

Mark 14:66 Now while Peter was below in the quadrangle, one of the High Priest's maidservants came,
(Root in WEY BBE NAS NIV)

Luke 1:38 "I am the Lord's maidservant," Mary replied; "may it be with me in accordance with your words!" And then the angel left her.
(Root in WEY BBE YLT NIV)

Luke 1:48 Because He has not turned from His maidservant in her lowly position; For from this time forward all generations will account me happy,
(Root in WEY BBE YLT NIV)

Luke 1:54 He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 1:69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 2:29 "Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 4:8 And Jesus in answer said to him, It has been said in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God, and be his servant only.
(BBE)

Luke 4:20 And shutting the book he gave it back to the servant and took his seat: and the eyes of all in the Synagogue were fixed on him.
(BBE)

Luke 7:2 A certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NIV)

Luke 7:3 When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NIV)

Luke 7:7 Therefore I didn't even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 7:8 For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one,'Go!' and he goes; and to another,'Come!' and he comes; and to my servant,'Do this,' and he does it."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT NIV)

Luke 7:10 Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick was well.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NIV)

Luke 7:27 This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.
(BBE)

Luke 12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is the wise and responsible servant whom his lord will put in control of his family, to give them their food at the right time?
(BBE NAS NIV)

Luke 12:43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 12:45 But if that servant says in his heart,'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 12:46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 12:47 That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 14:17 He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited,'Come, for everything is ready now.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 14:21 "That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant,'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 14:22 "The servant said,'Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 14:23 "The lord said to the servant,'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 15:29 But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:
(BBE)

Luke 16:1 And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.
(BBE)

Luke 16:3 And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.
(BBE)

Luke 16:8 And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
(BBE)

Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 17:7 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field,'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 17:9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 19:17 "He said to him,'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 19:22 "He said to him,'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 20:10 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 20:11 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 22:26 But let it not be so with you; but he who is greater, let him become like the younger; and he who is chief, like a servant.
(BBE NAS)

Luke 22:27 For which is greater, the guest who is seated at a meal or the servant who is waiting on him? is it not the guest? but I am among you as a servant.
(BBE)

Luke 22:50 A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NIV)

Luke 22:56 A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him."
(WEB WEY BBE NAS NIV)

John 8:33 They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?
(BBE YLT)

John 8:34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
(Root in WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT)

John 8:35 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
(Root in WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT)

John 10:13 For he is only a hired servant and cares nothing for the sheep.
(WEY BBE)

John 12:26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

John 13:16 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

John 15:20 Remember the word that I said to you:'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

John 18:10 Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NIV)

Acts 1:25 To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.
(BBE)

Acts 3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
(WEB WEY ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 3:26 God, having raised up his servant, Jesus, sent him to you first, to bless you, in turning away everyone of you from your wickedness."
(WEB WEY ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 4:25 who by the mouth of your servant, David, said,'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 4:27 "For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
(WEB WEY ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 4:30 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."
(WEB WEY ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 8:27 And he went and there was a man of Ethiopia, a servant of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, and controller of all her property, who had come up to Jerusalem for worship;
(BBE)

Acts 10:18 had come to the door and had called the servant, and were asking, "Is Simon, surnamed Peter, staying here?"
(WEY)

Acts 12:13 When he knocked at the wicket in the door, a maidservant named Rhoda came to answer the knock;
(Root in WEY NAS NIV)

Acts 12:20 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king's personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.
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Acts 26:16 But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;
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Acts 27:23 For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,
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Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
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Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,
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Subtopics

Servant: Bond by Paul

Servant: Bond by the Roman Centurion

Servant: Bond used As Soldiers by Abraham

Servant: Bond: An Abandoned Sick Man

Servant: Bond: Bond Service Threatened, As a National Punishment, for the Disobedience of Israel