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# עֹבַדְיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Obadiah** — used 9 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

Obadiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5d1_5b7_5d3_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹבַדְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5d1_5b7_5d3_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (servant of Yah, cf. GrayProp. N. 295, No. 90; also Ph. עבדבעל, Palm. עבדבל, Old Aramaic עבדההד Lzb333, OHeb. עבדיהו id.334);— עֹבַדְיָ֫הוּ: chief of Ahab’s household 1 K 18:3(×2), 4, 5, 6, 7, 16, 𝔊 Αβδ(ε)ιου. father of one of the chiefs of Zebulun 1 Ch 27:19, 𝔊 Αβδ(ε)ιου (genit.). a Levite overseer in time of Josiah 2 Ch 34:12, 𝔊 Αβδ(ε)ια, A 𝔊L Αβδιας. עֹבַדְיָה: the prophet Ob 1, 𝔊 Οβδ(ε)ιου (genit.), Αβδ(ε)ιου. a descendant of David 1 Ch 3:21, 𝔊 Αβδεια, 𝔊L Οβδιας. chief of tribe of Issachar 1 Ch 7:3, 𝔊 Μειβδεια, A Οβδια, 𝔊L Αβδια. a Benjamite 1 Ch 8:38; 9:44, 𝔊 Αβδ(ε)ια. a Levite 1 Ch 9:16 (‖ עַבְדָּא Ne 11:17), 𝔊 Αβδεια, A Οβδια, 𝔊L Αβια. a Gadite chief 1 Ch 12:9, 𝔊 Αβδ(ε)ια. a prince in time of Jehoshaphat 2 Ch 17:7, 𝔊 Αβ(δ)ιαν. priestly companion of Ezra Ezr 8:9 Ne 10:6, 𝔊 Αδεια, Αβ(α)δ(ε)ια, 𝔊L Αβδιου, Αβιας. a doorkeeper Ne 12:25, א Οβδιας, 𝔊L Αβδιας.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Obadiah (8); of Obadiah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 27:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.19/#tree)

לִזְבוּלֻ֕ן יִֽשְׁמַֽעְיָ֖הוּ בֶּן־עֹבַדְיָ֑הוּ לְנַ֨פְתָּלִ֔י יְרִימ֖וֹת בֶּן־עַזְרִיאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* for Zebulun Ishmaiah the.son of.Obadiah for Naphtali Jerimoth the.son of.Azriel

*JPS 1917:* of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel;

[1 Kings 18:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.3/#tree)

וַיִּקְרָ֣א אַחְאָ֔ב אֶל־עֹבַדְיָ֖הוּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־הַבָּ֑יִת וְעֹבַדְיָ֗הוּ הָיָ֥ה יָרֵ֛א אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.summoned Ahab (to) Obadiah who \[was\].over the household and Obadiah he.was fearing (et) Yahweh exceedingly

*JPS 1917:* And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. — Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5d1_5b7_5d3_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b9_5d1_5b7_5d3_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/): 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).