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# עַבְדָּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5653

**Abda** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Abda [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5653/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַבְדָּא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5653/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (servant of י׳ (= עֹבַדְיָה 1 Ch 9:16 = Ne 11:17), but form dub., v. 𝔊);— father of Adoniram 1 K 4:6; 𝔊 Εφρα, A Αβαω,𝔊L Εδραμ. a Levite Ne 11:17; 𝔊 Ωβηβ, A Ιωβηβ, 𝔊L Αβδιας.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abda (1); of Abda (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 4:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.6/#tree)

וַאֲחִישָׁ֖ר עַל־הַבָּ֑יִת וַאֲדֹנִירָ֥ם בֶּן־עַבְדָּ֖א עַל־הַמַּֽס׃ס

*Word for word:* and Ahishar \[was\].over the house and Adoniram the.son of.Abda \[was\].over the.forced labor

*JPS 1917:* and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.

[Nehemiah 11:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.17/#tree)

וּמַתַּנְיָ֣ה בֶן־מִ֠יכָה בֶּן־זַבְדִּ֨י בֶן־אָסָ֜ף רֹ֗אשׁ הַתְּחִלָּה֙ יְהוֹדֶ֣ה לַתְּפִלָּ֔ה וּבַקְבֻּקְיָ֖ה מִשְׁנֶ֣ה מֵאֶחָ֑יו וְעַבְדָּא֙ בֶּן־שַׁמּ֔וּעַ בֶּן־גָּלָ֖ל בֶּן־יְדוּתֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* and Mattaniah the.son of.Micah the.son of.Zabdi the.son of.Asaph the.leader of the.beginning he.gave.thanks to the prayer and Bakbukiah \[the\].second of brothers his and Abda the.son of.Shammua the.son of.Galal the.son Jeduthun

*JPS 1917:* and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5653.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5653/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).