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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - עֹובֵד
עֹובֵד
H5744
Transliteration: ʻÔwbêd
Pronunciation: o-bade'
Definition: Obed
Original: עובד Transliteration: ‛ôbêd Phonetic: o-bade'
BDB Definition:
Obed = "serving"- son of Boaz by Ruth and the grandfather of David
- a Judaite, a descendant of Jarha, the Egyptian slave of Sheshan, in the line of Jerahmeel
- a Judaite, father of Azariah, one of the captains of hundreds who joined with Jehoiada in the revolution by which Athaliah fell
- one of David's mighty warriors
- son of Shemaiah and a gatekeeper of the temple