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Obadiah

Servant of the Lord Obadiah is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “servant of the Lord.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H5662
Hebrew
עֹבַדְיָה · ʻÔbadyâh
Name meaning
servant of the Lord According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

עֹבַדְיָה

H5662
Transliteration
ʻÔbadyâh
Pronunciation
o-bad-yaw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
20

Glosses

Obadiah.

Lexicon definition

Obadjah, the name of thirteen Israelites

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Obadiah

servant of the Lord

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Obadiah

Indexed occurrences: 22

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Deuteronomy 8

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2 Samuel 1

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Proverbs 3

Ecclesiastes 1

Song of Solomon 2

Isaiah 13

Jeremiah 10

Lamentations 3

Ezekiel 7

Daniel 1

Hosea 2

Joel 3

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Obadiah 12

Micah 1

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Zechariah 3

Malachi 1

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1 Corinthians 2

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Ephesians 1

1 Thessalonians 1

1 Timothy 1

Hebrews 4

James 1

1 Peter 1

Revelation 3

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Obadiah

Meaning:
servant of the Lord

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Juda

(1.) The patriarch Judah, son of Jacob (Luke 3:33; Heb. 7:14). In Luke 1:39; Heb. 7:14; Rev. 5:5; 7:5, the word refers to the tribe of Judah. (2.) The father of Simeon in Christ's maternal ancestry (Luke 3:30). (3.) Son of Joanna, and father of Joseph in Christ's maternal ancestry (26), probably identical with Abiud (Matt. 1:13), and with Obadiah (1 Chr. 3:21). (4.) One of the Lord's "brethren" (Mark 6:3).

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Obadiah, Book of

Consists of one chapter, "concerning Edom," its impending doom (1:1-16), and the restoration of Israel (1:17-21). This is the shortest book of the Old Testament. There are on record the account of four captures of Jerusalem, (1) by Shishak in the reign of Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:25); (2) by the Philistines and Arabians in the reign of Jehoram (2 Chr. 21:16); (3) by Joash, the king of Israel, in the reign of Amaziah (2 Kings 14:13); and (4) by the Babylonians, when Jerusalem was taken and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (B.C. 586). Obadiah (1:11-14) speaks of this capture as a thing past. He sees the calamity as having already come on Jerusalem, and the Edomites as joining their forces with those of the Chaldeans in bringing about the degradation and ruin of Israel. We do not indeed read that the Edomites actually took part with the Chaldeans, but the probabilities are that they did so, and this explains the words of Obadiah in denouncing against Edom the judgments of God. The date of his prophecies was thus in or about the year of the destruction of Jerusalem. Edom is the type of Israel's and of God's last foe (Isa. 63:1-4). These will finally all be vanquished, and the kingdom will be the Lord's (comp. Ps. 22:28).

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servant of the Lord

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