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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - עֹבֵד אֱדֹום
עֹבֵד אֱדֹום
H5654
Transliteration: ʻÔbêd ʼĔdôwm
Pronunciation: o-bade' ed-ome'
Definition: Obed-edom
Original: עבד אדום Transliteration: ‛ôbêd 'ĕdôm Phonetic: o-bade' ed-ome'
BDB Definition:
Obed-edom = "servant of Edom"- a Levite and a Gittite who kept the ark after Uzzah was slain by God for touching the ark while it was being taken to Jerusalem
- a Merarite Levite and a singer and gatekeeper
- the family descended from him