Strong's #5662: `Obadyah (pronounced o-bad-yaw')
or mObadyahuw {o-bad-yaw'-hoo}; active participle of 5647 and 3050; serving Jah; Obadjah, the name of thirteen Israelites:--Obadiah.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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‛ôbadyâh / ‛ôbadyâhû
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
Relation: active participle of H5647 and H3050
Usage:
This word is used 20 times:
1 Kings 18:3: "And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah"
1 Kings 18:3: "Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared"
1 Kings 18:4: "the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid"
1 Kings 18:5: "And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all"
1 Kings 18:6: "one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself."
1 Kings 18:7: " And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell"
1 Kings 18:16: " So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet"
1 Chronicles 3:21: "the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah."
1 Chronicles 7:3: "and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all"
1 Chronicles 8:38: "Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons"
1 Chronicles 9:16: " And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah"
1 Chronicles 9:44: "Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel."
1 Chronicles 12:9: "Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,"
1 Chronicles 27:19: "Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:"
2 Chronicles 17:7: "he sent to his princes, even to Ben-hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach"
2 Chronicles 34:12: "and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari;"
Ezra 8:9: "Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred"
Nehemiah 10:5: "Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,"
Nehemiah 12:25: "Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping"
Obadiah 1:1: "The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard"
