{"def":{"lit":"servant of Jehovah","short":"Obadjah, the name of thirteen Israelites","long":["the 4th of the 12 minor prophets; nothing personal is known of him but it is probable that he was contemporary with Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel",["the prophetic book by him; prophesies against Edom"],"father of Ishmaiah, one of the chiefs of Zebulun in the time of David","a Merarite Levite overseer of the work of restoring the temple in the time of king Josiah of Judah","chief of the household of king Ahab of Israel; an devout worshipper of Jehovah who at risk to his own life hid over 100 prophets during the persecution of Jezebel","a descendant of David","a chief of the tribe of Issachar","a Benjamite, one of the 6 sons of Azel and a descendant of king Saul","a Levite, son of Shemaiah and a descendant of Jeduthun","a Gadite chief, the 2nd of the lion-faced Gadites who joined David at Ziklag","a prince of Judah in the time of king Jehoshaphat of Judah","a priest, son of Jehiel of the sons of Joab who returned from exile with Ezra","a gatekeeper in the time of Nehemiah","one of the men who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah 13a) perhaps the same as 12"]},"deriv":"or עֹבַדְיָהוּ; active participle of H5647 and H3050; serving Jah","pronun":{"ipa":"ʕo.bɑd̪ˈjɔː","ipa_mod":"ʕo̞w.vɑdˈjɑː","sbl":"ʿōbadyâ","dic":"oh-bahd-YAW","dic_mod":"oh-vahd-YA"}}