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# עַבְדִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5660

**Abdi** — used 3 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

Abdi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5660/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַבְדִּי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5660/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (= עֹבַדְיָה servant of Yah; v. however, GrayProp. N. 149 ff. and cf. Old Aramaic עבדו, Nab.Palm. עבדי Lzb333, 334 Cook87);— a Levite 1 Ch 6:29; 2 Ch 29:12; 𝔊 Αβδ(ε)ι, 𝔊L 1 Ch Αβδια. one with a foreign wife Ezr 10:26; 𝔊 Αβδε(ι)α.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Abdi (2); Abdi (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 10:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.26/#tree)

וּמִבְּנֵ֖י עֵילָ֑ם מַתַּנְיָ֤ה זְכַרְיָה֙ וִיחִיאֵ֣ל וְעַבְדִּ֔י וִירֵמ֖וֹת וְאֵלִיָּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and of the.sons of.Elam Mattaniah Zechariah and Jehiel and Abdi and Jeremoth and Elijah

*JPS 1917:* And of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.

[1 Chronicles 6:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.29/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֧י מְרָרִ֛י אֲחֵיהֶ֖ם עַֽל־הַשְּׂמֹ֑אול אֵיתָן֙ בֶּן־קִישִׁ֔י בֶּן־עַבְדִּ֖י בֶּן־מַלּֽוּךְ׃

*Word for word:* and the.descendants of.Merari relatives their \[were\].at the.left hand Ethan the.son of.Kishi the.son of.Abdi the.son of.Malluch

*JPS 1917:* And on the left hand their brethren the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5660.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5660/): 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).