hebrew #5662 - עֹבַדְיָה Obadyah or Obadyahu ("servant of Yah")
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Obadiah Or mobadyahuw {o-bad-yaw'-hoo}; active participle of abad and Yahh; serving Jah; Obadjah, the name of thirteen Israelites -- Obadiah. see HEBREW abad see HEBREW Yahh Englishman's Concordance 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 Edom 2) father of Ishmaiah, one of the chiefs of Zebulun in the time of David 3) a Merarite Levite overseer of the work of restoring the temple in the time of king Josiah of Judah 4) 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 David 6) a chief of the tribe of Issachar 7) a Benjamite, one of the 6 sons of Azel and a descendant of king Saul 8) 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 Judah 11) a priest, son of Jehiel of the sons of Joab who returned from exile with Ezra 12) a gatekeeper in the time of Nehemiah 13) one of the men who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah 13a) perhaps the same as 12 Part of Speech: noun proper masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: active participle of H5647 and H3050 Brown-Driver-Briggsעֹבַדְיָ֫הוּ, עֹבַדְיָהproper name, masculine (servant of Yah, compare GrayProp. N. 295, No. 90; also Phoenician עבדבעל, Palmyrene עבדבל, Old Aramaic עבדההד Lzb333, Old Hebrew עבדיהו Id.334); — I. עֹבַדְיָ֫הוּ: 1chief of Ahab's household1 Kings 18:3 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 18:4,5,6,7,16, ᵐ5Αβδ(ε)ιου. 2father of one of the chiefs of Zebulun1 Chronicles 27:19, ᵐ5Αβδ(ε)ιου (genitive). 3a Levite overseer in time of Josiah2Chronicles 34:12, ᵐ5Αβδ(ε)ια, A ᵐ5LΑβδιας. II. עֹבַדְיָה: 1the prophet Obadiah, ᵐ5Οβδ(ε)ιου (genitive), Αβδ(ε)ιου. 2a descendant of David1 Chronicles 3:21, ᵐ5Αβδεια, ᵐ5LΟβδιας. 3chief of tribe of Issachar1 Chronicles 7:3, ᵐ5Μειβδεια, A Οβδια, ᵐ5LΑβδια. 4a Benjamite1 Chronicles 8:38; 1 Chronicles 9:44, ᵐ5Αβδ(ε)ια. 5a Levite1 Chronicles 9:16 ("" עַבְדָּאNehemiah 11:17), ᵐ5Αβδεια A Οβδια, ᵐ5LΑβια. 6a Gadite chief1 Chronicles 12:9, ᵐ5Αβδ(ε)ια. 7a prince in time of Jehoshaphat2Chronicles 17:7, ᵐ5Αβ(δ)ιαν. 8priestly companion of EzraEzra 8:9; Nehemiah 10:6, ᵐ5Αδεια, Αβ(α)δ(ε)ια, ᵐ5LΑβδιου, Αβιας. 9a doorkeeperNehemiah 12:25, אΟβδιας, ᵐ5LΑβδιας. Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Hebrew: 5662. עֹבַדְיָה (Obadyah or Obadyahu) — 20 Occurrences1 Kings 18:3 1 Kings 18:3 1 Kings 18:4 1 Kings 18:5 1 Kings 18:6 1 Kings 18:7 1 Kings 18:16 1 Chronicles 3:21 1 Chronicles 7:3 1 Chronicles 8:38 1 Chronicles 9:16 1 Chronicles 9:44 1 Chronicles 12:10 1 Chronicles 27:19 2 Chronicles 17:7 2 Chronicles 34:12 Ezra 8:9 Nehemiah 10:5 Nehemiah 12:25 Obadiah 1:1 |