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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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5662 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Obadjah, the name of thirteen Israelites
- Derivation
- or עֹבַדְיָהוּ; active participle of H5647 (עָבַד) and H3050 (יָהּ); serving Jah;
- KJV renderings
- Obadiah.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- עֹבַדְיָה֙ — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 20 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Kings 18:31 Kings 18:31 Kings 18:41 Kings 18:51 Kings 18:6
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עֹבַדְיָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.