ovadya · Obadiah

What it means

ovadya (עֹבַדְיָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Obadiah”.

A name meaning "servant of Yah." About thirteen people in the Bible bear it; among them the man over King Ahab's household who hid a hundred prophets (1 Kings 18), and the prophet of the book that bears his name.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×7
• 1 Chronicles×7
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Obadiah×1

• 1 Kings 18:3

  Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. Now Obadiah feared YHWH greatly;

• 1 Kings 18:4

  and it happened, when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of YHWH, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men to each cave, and fed them with bread and water.

• 1 Kings 18:5

  Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the brooks; perhaps we will find grass and keep alive horse and mule, and not have to cut off some of the animals.”

• 1 Kings 18:6

  So they divided the land between them to pass through it; Ahab went by one way by himself, and Obadiah went by another way by himself.

• 1 Kings 18:7

  As Obadiah was on the way, there was Elijah to meet him. He recognized him and fell on his face and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”

• 1 Kings 18:16

  So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

• 1 Chronicles 3:21

  And the son of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.

• 1 Chronicles 7:3

  And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; five, all of them heads.

• 1 Chronicles 8:38

  And Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

• 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, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

• 1 Chronicles 9:44

  And Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.

• 1 Chronicles 12:9

  Ezer the head, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

• 1 Chronicles 27:19

  for Zebulun, Ishmaiah son of Obadiah; for Naphtali, Jerimoth son of Azriel;

• 2 Chronicles 17:7

  In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

• 2 Chronicles 34:12

  The men were working with faithfulness in the work. Over them were appointed Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to direct; and the Levites, all who understood instruments of song,

• Ezra 8:9

  of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred eighteen males;

• Nehemiah 10:5

  Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

• Nehemiah 12:25

  Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were guards, gatekeepers, keeping watch at the storehouses of the gates.

• Obadiah 1:1

  The vision of Obadiah. Thus says Adonai YHWH concerning Edom: A report we have heard from YHWH, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: “Rise up, and let us rise against her for battle!”

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