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Obed

Mentioned 1751 BC to AD 26 traditional (Jones)

A son of Boaz and Ruth (Ruth 4:21, 22), and the grandfather of David (Matt. 1:5).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Boaz
Mother
Ruth
Child
Jesse
Tagged in
6 verses

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

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. 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.

Family tree of Obed: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 2195 BC to AD 100, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Obed’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Obed in 6 tagged verses across 4 books.

Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Ruth3
  2. 1 Chronicles1
  3. Matthew1
  4. Luke1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBObed 32
KJVObed 33
ASVObed 33

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

Ruth3 verses
  1. 4:17

    The neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.

  2. 4:21

    Salmon was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the father of Obed,

  3. 4:22

    Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.

1 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 2:12

    Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse.

Matthew1 verse
  1. 1:5

    Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse,

Luke1 verse
  1. 3:32

    the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon,

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

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

A son of Boaz and Ruth (Ruth 4:21, 22), and the grandfather of David (Matt. 1:5).