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# עֹבַדְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5662

**Obadiah** — used 11 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/1506/5662/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹבַדְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5662/#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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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 (9); of Obadiah (2).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.6/#tree)

חָרִ֥ם מְרֵמ֖וֹת עֹֽבַדְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Harim Meremoth Obadiah

*JPS 1917:* Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah;

[1 Chronicles 12:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.10/#tree)

עֵ֖זֶר הָרֹ֑אשׁ עֹבַדְיָה֙ הַשֵּׁנִ֔י אֱלִיאָ֖ב הַשְּׁלִשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* Ezer \[was\].the chief Obadiah \[was\].the second Eliab \[was\].the third

*JPS 1917:* Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5662/): 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).