Hebrew word · H5660

עַבְדִּי

'avdi

Abdi

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.6.44;

son of: Malluch (H4409);

father of: Kishi (H7029)

§ Abdi = "servant of Jehovah"

1) a Merarite Levite and ancestor of Ethan the singer

2) a Merarite Levite, father of Kish, in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah

3) one of the family of Elam who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 6:44 עַבְדִּ֖י Abdi

    On the left were their kinsmen, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

2 Chronicles · 1

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:12 עַבְדִּ֔י Abdi

    Then the Levites set to work: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah from the Kohathites; Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel from the Merarites; Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah from the Gershonites;

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 10:26 וְעַבְדִּ֔י and Abdi

    From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.

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