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Obadiah

Also called Abda

Mentioned 535–444 BC traditional (Jones)

A Levite, after the Captivity (1 Chr. 9:16).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Shemaiah
Tagged in
3 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 560–419 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

3 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 1 Chronicles1
  2. Nehemiah2

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBObadiah 22Abda 2
KJVObadiah 20Abda 2
ASVObadiah 20Abda 2

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 3 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 9:16

    Obadiah son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

Nehemiah2 verses
  1. 11:17

    Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

  2. 12:25

    Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

A Levite, after the Captivity (1 Chr. 9:16).