Obadiah

English

Etymology

From Hebrew עובדיה (Ovadya, “servant of Yahweh”); comparable to Arabic عبد اللّٰه (ʕabd-allah, “servant of God”).

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Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊbəˈdaɪə/
• Rhymes: -aɪə

Proper noun

Obadiah

2. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) Obad.

4. (biblical) A minor prophet.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Obadiah 1:1:
     :

     The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

5. A male given name from Hebrew, of biblical origin.

Related terms

• Obed
• Abdias

Translations

book of the Old Testament

Afrikaans: Obadja (af) Armenian: Աբդիու (Abdiu) Asturian: Abdíes (ast) Basque: Abdias (eu) Breton: Ovadia (br) m Catalan: Abdies Cebuano: Abdias Chinese: Cantonese: 俄巴底亞書 / 俄巴底亚书 (ngo4 baa1 dai2 aa3 syu1) Eastern Min: 阿巴底亞書 / 阿巴底亚书 (Ŏ̤-bă-dī-ā-cṳ̆) Hakka: 俄巴底亞書 / 俄巴底亚书 (Ngò-pâ-tí-â-sû) Mandarin: 俄巴底亞書 / 俄巴底亚书 (zh) (Ébādǐyàshū) Coptic: ⲁⲃⲇⲓⲟⲩ (Abdiou) Corsican: Abdia (co) Czech: Abdiáš m, Abdijáš m Danish: Obadias Dutch: Obadja (nl) m Estonian: Obadja raamat (et) Faroese: Obadias (fo) m Finnish: Obadja (fi) French: Abdias (fr) Georgian: აბდია (abdia) German: Obadja (de) Greek: Οβδιού (el) m (Ovdioú) Ancient: Ὀβδιοῦ m (Obdioû) Hawaiian: ʻObadia Hebrew: עֹבַדְיָה Hindi: ओबद्याह (obadyāh) Hungarian: Abdiás (hu) Icelandic: Óbadía m Ido: Abdias (io) m Irish: Leabhar Óbaidiá m, Óbaidiá (ga) m Italian: Obadia m Japanese: オバデヤ書 (Obadeya-sho) Kazakh: Абди (Abdi) Latin: Abdiæ m Latvian: Obadja (lv) m Limburgish: Obadia Lithuanian: Abdijo knyga (lt) f Malay: Obaja Maltese: Ktieb Għabdija (mt) Maori: Oparia (mi) Norwegian: Obadja, Obadias (no) Polish: Księga Abdiasza f Portuguese: Abdias (pt), Obadias (pt) m Romanian: Obadia m Russian: Кни́га А́вдия f (Kníga Ávdija) Scots: Obadiah Scottish Gaelic: Obadiah (gd) m Slovak: Abdiáš m Slovene: Abdija (sl) Spanish: Abdías (es), Obadías m Swahili: Obadia (sw) Swedish: Obadja Tagalog: Obadias (tl) m Tumbuka: Obadiya Waray-Waray: Obadia Welsh: Obadeia (cy) m West Frisian: Obadja Zealandic: Obadja

Scottish Gaelic

Proper noun

Obadiah m

1. (biblical) Obadiah
2. (biblical) Obadiah, the thirty-first book of the Old Testament

Coordinate terms

books of the Protestant Old Testamentedit

• Genesis
• Ecsodus
• Lebhiticus
• Àireamh
• Deuteronomi
• Iosua
• Britheamhan
• Rut
• 1 Samuel
• 2 Samuel
• 1 Rìghrean
• 2 Rìghrean
• 1 Eachdraidh
• 2 Eachdraidh
• Esra
• Nehemiah
• Ester
• Iob
• Sailm
• Gnàth-fhacail
• Eclesiastes
• Dàn Sholaimh
• Isaiah
• Ieremiah
• Tuireadh
• Eseciel
• Daniel
• Hosèa
• Ioel
• Amos
• Obadiah
• Ionah
• Micah
• Nahum
• Habacuc
• Sephaniah
• Hagai
• Sechariah
• Malachi