Nave’s Topical Bible
Servant
214 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
Distinguish a bondservant (Greek: doulos), who was a slave, from a hired servant (Greek: diakonos), who was not a slave
- BOND
- Laws of Moses concerning
Exodus 21:1-11,20-21,26-27,32; Leviticus 19:20-22; Leviticus 25:6,10,35-55; Deuteronomy 15:12,14,18; Deuteronomy 24:7
- Kidnapping forbidden
Deuteronomy 21:10-14; Deuteronomy 24:7; 1 Timothy 1:10; Revelation 18:13
- Fugitive, not to be returned to his master
- David erroneously supposed to be a fugitive slave
- Instances of fugitive
- Hagar, commanded by an angel to return to Sarah (Sarai), her owner
- Sought by Shimei
- Onesimus interceded for, by Paul
- Rights of those born to a master
Genesis 14:14; Genesis 17:13,27; Exodus 21:4; Proverbs 29:21; Ecclesiastes 2:7; Jeremiah 2:14
- Bought and sold
Genesis 17:13,27; Genesis 37:28,36; Genesis 39:17; Deuteronomy 28:68; Esther 7:4; Ezekiel 27:13; Joel 3:6; Amos 8:6; Revelation 18:13
- Captives of war became slaves
Deuteronomy 20:14; Deuteronomy 21:10-14; 2 Kings 5:2; 2 Chronicles 28:8,10; Lamentations 5:13
- Captive bondservants shared by priests and Levites
- Thieves punished by being made
- Defaulting debtors made
- Children of defaulting debtors sold as
- Voluntary servitude of
- Given as dowry
- Owned by priests
- Slaves owned slaves
- The master could marry, or give in marriage
- Taken in concubinage
- Used as soldiers by Abraham
- Must be circumcised
- Must enjoy religious privileges with the master's household
Deuteronomy 12:12,18; Deuteronomy 16:11,14; Deuteronomy 29:10-11
- Must have rest on the sabbath
- Equal status of, with other disciples of Jesus
1 Corinthians 7:21-22; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 6:8
- Kindness to, commanded
- Bond service threatened, as a national punishment, for the Disobedience of Israel
- Degrading influences of bondage exemplified by cowardice
- Emancipation of
- Freedmen called "Libertines,"
- Cruelty to
- The Israelites
- An abandoned sick man
- Kindness to
- By the Roman centurion
- By Paul
- Laws of Moses concerning
- INSTANCES OF
- FIGURATIVE
Leviticus 25:42,55; Psalms 116:16; Matthew 24:45-51; Luke 12:35-48; Luke 17:7-9; John 8:32-35; Romans 6:16-22; 1 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 7:21-23; Galatians 5:13; 1 Peter 2:16; 2 Peter 2:19; Revelation 7:3
- INSTANCES OF GOOD
- Joseph
- Elisha
- Servants
- Of Abraham
- Of Boaz
- Of Jonathan
- Of Abigail
- Of David
- Of Ziba
- Of Naaman
- Of Nehemiah
- Of the Roman centurion
- Of Cornelius
- Onesimus
- Servants in the parable of the pounds and the parable of the talents
- WICKED AND UNFAITHFUL
- Jeroboam
- Gehazi
- Zimri
- Onesimus
- Of Abraham and Lot
- Of Abimelech
- Of Ziba
- Of Absalom
- Of Shimei
- Of Joash
- Of Amon
- Of Job
- In the parable of the talents and the parable of the pounds
- In the parable of the vineyard
Conspiracy by
See CONSPIRACY
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Genesis 16:6-9; Exodus 20:10; Deuteronomy 5:14; Nehemiah 5:8; Job 19:15-16; Job 31:13-14; Psalms 123:2; Proverbs 12:9; Proverbs 13:17; Proverbs 17:2; Proverbs 19:10; Proverbs 25:13; Proverbs 26:6; Proverbs 27:18,27; Proverbs 29:19,21; Proverbs 30:10,21-23; Ecclesiastes 7:21; Isaiah 52:3; Jeremiah 22:13; Jeremiah 34:8-17; Lamentations 5:8; Zephaniah 1:9; Malachi 1:6; Matthew 8:9; Matthew 10:24-25; Matthew 24:45-51; Luke 12:35-48; Luke 16:1-13; Luke 17:7-9; Luke 22:27; John 13:16; 1 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Corinthians 7:21-24; Ephesians 6:5-9; Colossians 3:22-25; 1 Timothy 6:1-2; Titus 2:9-10; 1 Peter 2:18-20
- HIRED
- Jacob
- Re-employed
- Parable of
- The laborers of a vineyard
- The father of the prodigal son
- The rebellious son
- Treatment of, more considerate than that of slaves
- Await employment in the marketplace
- Wages paid
- In kind
- In money
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Leviticus 19:13; Leviticus 25:39-41; Deuteronomy 24:14-15; Job 7:1-2; Job 14:6; Malachi 3:5; Matthew 10:9-10; Luke 10:7; Romans 4:4; Colossians 4:1; 1 Timothy 5:18; James 5:4
See MASTERS
See WAGES
Bible verses about “Servant”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Exodus 21:1Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
- Exodus 21:2If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
- Exodus 21:3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
- Exodus 21:4If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
- Exodus 21:5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
- Exodus 21:6Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
- Exodus 21:7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
- Exodus 21:8If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
- Exodus 21:9And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
- Exodus 21:10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
- Exodus 21:11And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
- Exodus 21:20And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
- Exodus 21:21Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
- Exodus 21:26And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
- Exodus 21:27And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
- Exodus 21:32If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
- Leviticus 19:20And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
- Leviticus 19:21And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.
- Leviticus 19:22And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
- Leviticus 25:6And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
- Leviticus 25:10And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
- Leviticus 25:35And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
- Leviticus 25:36Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
- Leviticus 25:37Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
- Leviticus 25:38I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
- Leviticus 25:39And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
- Leviticus 25:40But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
- Leviticus 25:41And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
- Leviticus 25:42For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
- Leviticus 25:43Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
- Leviticus 25:44Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
- Leviticus 25:45Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
- Leviticus 25:46And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
- Leviticus 25:47And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:
- Leviticus 25:48After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
- Leviticus 25:49Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
- Leviticus 25:50And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
- Leviticus 25:51If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
- Leviticus 25:52And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
- Leviticus 25:53And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.