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title: עַבְדִּי — Abdi · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עַבְדִּי (5660), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Abdi. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עַבְדִּי

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«עַבְדִּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Abdi** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 5660 · **BDB:** עַבְדִּי

### Glosses

of.Abdi (2); Abdi (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Abdi [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5660/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5660/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (= עֹבַדְיָה servant of Yah; v. however, GrayProp. N. 149 ff. and cf. Old Aramaic עבדו, Nab.Palm. עבדי Lzb333, 334 Cook87);— a Levite 1 Ch 6:29; 2 Ch 29:12; 𝔊 Αβδ(ε)ι, 𝔊L 1 Ch Αβδια. one with a foreign wife Ezr 10:26; 𝔊 Αβδε(ι)α.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עַבְדִּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5660/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 10:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.26/)

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וּמִבְּנֵ֖י עֵילָ֑ם מַתַּנְיָ֤ה זְכַרְיָה֙ וִיחִיאֵ֣ל וְעַבְדִּ֔י וִירֵמ֖וֹת וְאֵלִיָּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and of the.sons of.Elam Mattaniah Zechariah and Jehiel and Abdi and Jeremoth and Elijah

*JPS 1917:* And of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.

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[1 Chronicles 6:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.29/)

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וּבְנֵ֧י מְרָרִ֛י אֲחֵיהֶ֖ם עַֽל־הַשְּׂמֹ֑אול אֵיתָן֙ בֶּן־קִישִׁ֔י בֶּן־עַבְדִּ֖י בֶּן־מַלּֽוּךְ׃

*Word for word:* and the.descendants of.Merari relatives their \[were\].at the.left hand Ethan the.son of.Kishi the.son of.Abdi the.son of.Malluch

*JPS 1917:* And on the left hand their brethren the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch;

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