עֹבֵד אֱדוֹם
Obed-edom
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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 H5654 appears in the Book of 2 Samuel — 3 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.
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 6:10 עֹבֵֽד אֱד֖וֹם n Proper n Proper So David would not remove the ark of Yahweh to him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
- 2 Samuel 6:11 עֹבֵ֥ד אֱדֹ֛ם עֹבֵ֥ד אֱדֹ֖ם n Proper n Proper n Proper n Proper The ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and Yahweh blessed Obed-edom, and all his house.
- 2 Samuel 6:12 עֹבֵ֤ד אֱדֹם֙ עֹבֵ֥ד אֱדֹ֛ם n Proper n Proper n Proper n Proper It was told king David, saying, Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God. David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with joy.
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.
עבד אדום (ʻÔbêd ʼĔdôwm) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Obed-edom.” 1 Chronicles dominates its distribution — 11 of 15 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 15 verses — uncommon. It first appears in 2 Samuel 6:10. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5654 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 →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #909
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 909 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 11 verses 73%
- 2 Samuel 3 verses 20%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 7%
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 15 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 12 verses · 80%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 20%
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: Obededom 20×
- American Standard Version: Obed-edom 20×
- Berean Standard Bible: Obed-edom 17×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Edom 15×, Obed 14×, Obed edom 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5654 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5654 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5654 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5654 across 43 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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 3 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. the Gittite who harboured the ark
- 2. one of the chief Levitical singers and doorkeepers
- 3. the family of the same
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
עֹבֵד אֱדֹם, and ע׳ אֱדוֹם n.pr.m. ( servant of (god) Edom )
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עבד (ʻâbad) (H5647) — to serve.
Forms in the corpus
The 20 distinct written forms H5654 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֱדֹ֖ם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 13:13 | 6 |
| אֱדֹ֛ם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 13:14 | 5 |
| עֹבֵ֥ד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 13:14 | 4 |
| עֹבֵֽד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 13:13 | 4 |
| אֱדֹם֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:24 | 2 |
| וְ/עֹבֵ֥ד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:18 | 2 |
| וְ/עֹבֵ֨ד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 16:5 | 2 |
| לְ/עֹבֵ֥ד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:8 | 2 |
| עֹבֵ֣ד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:8 | 2 |
| אֱד֖וֹם | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 6:10 | 1 |
| אֱד֗וֹם | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 25:24 | 1 |
| אֱדֹ֔ם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:21 | 1 |
| אֱדֹ֗ם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:8 | 1 |
| אֱדֹ֜ם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 16:5 | 1 |
| אֱדֹ֧ם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 16:38 | 1 |
| אֱדֹֽם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:8 | 1 |
| וְ/עֹבֵ֣ד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:21 | 1 |
| וְ/עֹבֵ֤ד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:24 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/עֹבֵ֥ד | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:4 | 1 |
| עֹבֵ֤ד | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 6:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5654, 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
- מעבד maʻbâd H4566 work
- עבד ʻăbad H5648 to make
- עבד ʻebed H5650 servant
- עבד ʻăbâd H5652 work
- עבדה ʻăbôdâh H5656 service
- עבדה ʻăbuddâh H5657 service
- עבדות ʻabdûwth H5659 bondage
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- עבדא ʻAbdâʼ H5653 Abda
- עבדאל ʻAbdᵉʼêl H5655 Abdeel
- עבדון ʻAbdôwn H5658 Abdon
- עבדי ʻAbdîy H5660 Abdi
- עבדיה ʻÔbadyâh H5662 Obadiah
- עובד ʻÔwbêd H5744 Obed
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 15 — not the complete family. 6 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 (Obed-edom). 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
Servant of Edom. (1.) "The Gittite" (probably so called because he was a native of Gath-rimmon), a Levite of the family of the Korhites (1 Chr. 26:1, 4-8), to whom was specially intrusted the custody of the ark (1 Chr. 15:18). When David was bringing up the ark "from the house of Abinadab, that was in Gibeah" (probably some hill or eminence near Kirjath-jearim), and had reached Nachon's threshing-floor, he became afraid because of the "breach upon Uzzah," and carried it aside into the house of Obededom (2 Sam. 6:1-12). There it remained for six months, and was to him and his house the occasion of great blessing. David then removed it with great rejoicing to Jerusalem, and set it in the midst of the tabernacle he had pitched for it.
(2.) A Merarite Levite, a temple porter, who with his eight sons guarded the southern gate (1 Chr. 15:18, 21; 26:4, 8, 15).
(3.) One who had charge of the temple treasures (2 Chr. 25:24).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(servant of Edom).
+ A Levite, described as a Gittite, (2 Samuel 6:10,11) that is, probably, a native of the Levitical city of Gath-rimmon in Manasseh, which was assigned to the Kohathites. (Joshua 21:25) (B.C. 1045.) After the death of Uzzah, the ark, which was being conducted from the house of Abinadab in Gibeah to the city of David, was carried aside into the house of Obed edom, where it continued three months. It was brought thence by David. (2 Samuel 6:12; 1 Chronicles 15:25) + "Obed-edom the son of Jeduthun" (1 Chronicles 16:38) a Merarite Levite, appears to be a different person from the last mentioned. He was a Levite of the second degree and a gate-keeper for the ark, (1 Chronicles 15:18,24) appointed to sound "with harps on the Sheminith to excel." (1 Chronicles 15:21; 16:5) (B.C. 1043.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
servant of Edom
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 15 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 15 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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