עֹבַדְיָה

Strong’s Definition

Obadjah, the name of thirteen Israelites

Etymology & Derivation

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

KJV Usage

Obadiah.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 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
• 2.the prophetic book by him; prophesies against edom
• 3.father of ishmaiah, one of the chiefs of zebulun in the time of david
• 4.a merarite levite overseer of the work of restoring the temple in the time of king josiah of judah
• 5.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
• 6.a descendant of david
• 7.a chief of the tribe of issachar
• 8.a benjamite, one of the 6 sons of azel and a descendant of king saul
• 9.a levite, son of shemaiah and a descendant of jeduthun
• 10.a gadite chief, the 2nd of the lion-faced gadites who joined david at ziklag
• 11.a prince of judah in the time of king jehoshaphat of judah
• 12.a priest, son of jehiel of the sons of joab who returned from exile with ezra
• 13.a gatekeeper in the time of nehemiah
• 14.one of the men who sealed the covenant with nehemiah 13a) perhaps the same as 12

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: ʻÔbadyâh; Pronunciation: o-bad-yaw'