H5662

עבדיה

עבדיה

ibadayah

Proper masculine noun · Act part of עבד (H5647) and יה (H3050)

Or עבדיהו ʻÔbadyâhûw; active participle of H5647 and H3050; serving Jah; Obadjah, the name of thirteen Israelites:—Obadiah.

Outline

Obadiah = "servant of Jehovah"

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

the prophetic book by him; prophesies against Edom

father of Ishmaiah, one of the chiefs of Zebulun in the time of David
a Merarite Levite overseer of the work of restoring the temple in the time of king Josiah of Judah
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
a descendant of David
a chief of the tribe of Issachar
a Benjamite, one of the 6 sons of Azel and a descendant of king Saul
a Levite, son of Shemaiah and a descendant of Jeduthun
a Gadite chief, the 2nd of the lion-faced Gadites who joined David at Ziklag
a prince of Judah in the time of king Jehoshaphat of Judah
a priest, son of Jehiel of the sons of Joab who returned from exile with Ezra
a gatekeeper in the time of Nehemiah
one of the men who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

perhaps the same as 12

Usages

1 Kings 18:3

And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:

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1 Kings 18:4

For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

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1 Kings 18:5

And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

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1 Kings 18:6

So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

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1 Kings 18:7

¶ And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?

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1 Kings 18:16

So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

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1 Chronicles 3:21

And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.

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1 Chronicles 7:3

And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.

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1 Chronicles 8:38

And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

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1 Chronicles 9:16

And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

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1 Chronicles 9:44

And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.

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1 Chronicles 12:9

Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

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1 Chronicles 27:19

Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:

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2 Chronicles 17:7

¶ Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Ben-hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.

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2 Chronicles 34:12

And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

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Ezra 8:9

Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

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Nehemiah 10:5

Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

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Nehemiah 12:25

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.

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Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

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