Slave עֶ֫בֶד

Inspiring Words Knight Vision · Dec 10, 2025 · 4m

We are in chapter twenty-one of Exodus with our word for today. עֶ֫בֶד slave, servant, minister, adviser, official. It is used 801 times in the Old Testament, 7 times in our chapter. Let’s look at these in our chapter. Exodus 21:2, 5, 7, 20, 26-27, 32 When you buy a Hebrew עֶ֣בֶד slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing…But if הָעֶ֔בֶד the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’…When a man sells his daughter לְאָמָ֑ה as a slave [this is a different word for female slave], she shall not go out as…