זְבַדְיָהוּ
Zebadiah
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2069 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 8:15 וּ/זְבַדְיָ֥ה conj + n Proper and Zebadiah, and Arad, and Eder,
- 1 Chronicles 8:17 וּ/זְבַדְיָ֥ה conj + n Proper and Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Heber,
- 1 Chronicles 12:7 וּ/זְבַדְיָ֛ה conj + n Proper and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
- 1 Chronicles 26:2 זְבַדְיָ֨הוּ֙ n Proper Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
- 1 Chronicles 27:7 וּ/זְבַדְיָ֥ה conj + n Proper The fourth [captain] for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew name זבדיה centers on the idea of “Zebadiah.” 1 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 5 of 9 verses. Spanning 9 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Chronicles 8:15. For the data behind this summary, explore 9-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2069 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 5 verses 56%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 22%
- Ezra 2 verses 22%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Zebadiah 9×
- American Standard Version: Zebadiah 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zebadiah 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zebadiah 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2069 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2069 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2069 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2069 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
11 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 11 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. Levites,
- a. 1 Ch 26:2; e.g. 1 Chronicles 26:2
- b. 2 Ch 17:8. e.g. 2 Chronicles 17:8
- 2. an officer of Jehoshaphat 2 Ch 19:11. זְבַדְיָה e.g. 2 Chronicles 19:11
- 3. Benjamites,
- a. 1 Ch 8:15; e.g. 1 Chronicles 8:15
- b. 1 Ch 8:17. e.g. 1 Chronicles 8:17
- 4. one of David’s men 1 Ch 12:8. e.g. 1 Chronicles 12:8
- 5. an officer of David 1 Ch 27:7. e.g. 1 Chronicles 27:7
- 6. a returning exile Ezr 8:8. e.g. Ezra 8:8
- 7. one of priestly house Ezr 10:20. e.g. Ezra 10:20
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (י׳ hath bestowed, cf. יְהוֹזָבָד, & reff., also זַבְדִּיאֵל supr.)—זְבַדְיָהוּ
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זבד (zâbad) (H2064) — to endow.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זְבַדְיָה
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Zebadiah, name of an Amora. Y. Ber. III, 6ᶜ bot.—[Y. Sot. I, 16ᵈ, v. זְכַרְיָה.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H2069 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/זְבַדְיָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 8:15 | 3 |
| וּ/זְבַדְיָ֛ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 12:7 | 1 |
| וּ/זְבַדְיָ֡הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 17:8 | 1 |
| וּ/זְבַדְיָ֨הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 19:11 | 1 |
| וּ/זְבַדְיָֽה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:20 | 1 |
| זְבַדְיָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:8 | 1 |
| זְבַדְיָ֨הוּ֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2069, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zebadiah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Gift of Jehovah. (1.) A son of Asahel, Joab's brother (1 Chr. 27:7).
(2.) A Levite who took part as one of the teachers in the system of national education instituted by Jehoshaphat (2 Chr. 17:7, 8).
(3.) The son of Ishmael, "the ruler of the house of Judah in all the king's matters" (2 Chr. 19:8-11).
(4.) A son of Beriah (1 Chr. 8:15).
(5.) A Korhite porter of the Lord's house (1 Chr. 26:2). Three or four others of this name are also mentioned.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
+ A Benjamite of the sons of Beriah. (1 Chronicles 8:15) + A Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal. (1 Chronicles 8:17) + One of the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. (1 Chronicles 12:7) + Son of Asahel, the brother of Joab. (1 Chronicles 27:7) + Son of Michael, of the sons of Shephatiah. (Ezra 8:8) + A priest Of the sons of Immer, who had married a foreign wife after the return from Babylon. (Ezra 10:20) + Third son of Meshelemiah the Korhite. (1 Chronicles 26:3) + A Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 17:8) + The son of Ishmael and prince of the house of Judah in the reign of Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 19:11)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
portion of the Lord; the Lord is my portion
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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