'Servants' in the Bible

And he and his servants deployed against them by night, attacked them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus.

I will take nothing except what the servants have eaten. But as for the share of the men who came with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre—they can take their share.”

Early in the morning Abimelech got up, called all his servants together, and personally told them all these things, and the men were terrified.

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the water well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”

Now one day he went into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants were there.

she called the household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.

On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he gave a feast for all his servants. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

Pharaoh had been angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guard.

The proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants.

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone like this, a man who has God’s spirit in him?”

He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, and servants called out before him, “Abrek!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

“No, my lord. Your servants have come to buy food,” they said.

“We are all sons of one man. We are honest; your servants are not spies.”

But they replied, “We, your servants, were 12 brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no longer living.”

They said to him, “Why does my lord say these things? Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.

“What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed your servants’ iniquity. We are now my lord’s slaves—both we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”

My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him to me so that I can see him.’

Then you said to your servants, ‘If your younger brother does not come down with you, you will not see me again.’

when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hairs of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

When the news reached Pharaoh’s palace, “Joseph’s brothers have come,” Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.

you are to say, ‘Your servants, both we and our fathers, have raised livestock from our youth until now.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are abhorrent to Egyptians.”

Then Pharaoh asked his brothers, “What is your occupation?”And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants, both we and our fathers, are shepherds.”

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a while because there is no grazing land for your servants’ sheep, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.”

He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.

Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh’s servants, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt went with him,

‘Say this to Joseph: Please forgive your brothers’ transgression and their sin—the suffering they caused you.’ Therefore, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when their message came to him.