{"def":{"lit":"servant of Jehovah","short":"Abdi, the name of two Israelites","long":["a Merarite Levite and ancestor of Ethan the singer","a Merarite Levite, father of Kish, in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah","one of the family of Elam who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra"]},"deriv":"from H5647; serviceable","pronun":{"ipa":"ʕɑbˈd̪ɪi̯","ipa_mod":"ʕɑvˈdiː","sbl":"ʿabdî","dic":"ab-DEE","dic_mod":"av-DEE"}}