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HebrewH5662Proper Noun (Masculine)

עֹבַדְיָ֫הוּ

o.vad.yah

17Occurrences
H5662Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Obadjah, the name of thirteen Israelites

or עֹבַדְיָהוּ; active participle of H5647 (עָבַד) and H3050 (יָהּ); serving Jah;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at § Obadiah = "servant of Jehovah" 1) the 4th of the 12 minor prophets; nothing personal is known of him but it is probable that he was contemporary with Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel 1a) the prophetic book by him; prophesies against ) father of Ishmaiah, one of the chiefs of Zebulun in the time of ) a Merarite Levite overseer of the work of restoring the temple in the time of king Josiah of ) chief of the household of king Ahab of Israel; an devout worshipper of Jehovah who at risk to his own life hid over 100 prophets during the persecution of Jezebel 5) a descendant of ) a chief of the tribe of Issachar 7) a Benjamite, one of the 6 sons of Azel and a descendant of king ) a Levite, son of Shemaiah and a descendant of Jeduthun 9) a Gadite chief, the 2nd of the lion-faced Gadites who joined David at Ziklag 10) a prince of Judah in the time of king Jehoshaphat of ) a priest, son of Jehiel of the sons of Joab who returned from exile with ) a gatekeeper in the time of Nehemiah 13) one of the men who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah 13a) perhaps the same as 12

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

עֹבַדְיָ֫הוּ appears 17 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
6
1 Kings
6
2 Chronicles
2
Ezra
1
Nehemiah
1
Obadiah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 27:19BSB

over Zebulun was Ishmaiah son of Obadiah;over Naphtali was Jerimoth son of Azriel;

1 Chronicles 8:38BSB

Azel had six sons, and these were their names:Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

1 Kings 18:3BSB

and Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace.(Now Obadiah greatly feared the LORD,

1 Kings 18:6BSB

So they divided the land to explore. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went the other way by himself.

2 Chronicles 17:7BSB

In the third year of his reign, Jehoshaphat sent his officials Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah,

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.