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# עוֹבֵד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5744

**Obed** — used 10 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

Obed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5744/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עוֹבֵד: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5744/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (worshipper; cf. Sab. עבד Os22 and DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 14;— son of Boaz and Ruth Ru 4:17, v 21 = 1 Ch 2:12; Ru 4:22 (only here עֹבֵד) = 1 Ch 2:12, 𝔖 Ωβηδ. names in Judah, 𝔊 Ωβηδ: 1 Ch 2:37, 38. 2 Ch 23:1.) a mighty man of David 1 Ch 11:47, 𝔊 Ιωβηθ, A Ιωβηδ. a doorkeeper 1 Ch 26:7, 𝔊 Ωβηδ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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: Obed (9); of Obed (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.47/#tree)

אֱלִיאֵ֣ל וְעוֹבֵ֔ד וְיַעֲשִׂיאֵ֖ל הַמְּצֹבָיָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* Eliel and Obed and Jaasiel the Mezobaite

*JPS 1917:* Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

[Ruth 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.21/#tree)

וְשַׂלְמוֹן֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־בֹּ֔עַז וּבֹ֖עַז הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־עוֹבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and Salmon he.fathered (et) Boaz and Boaz he.fathered (et) Obed

*JPS 1917:* and Salmon begot Boaz, and Boaz begot Obed;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5744/): 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).