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Strong's #5654 - עֹבֵד אֱדוֹם
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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- 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
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proper name, masculine ( servant of (god) Edom, compare עבד אדם CIS No. 295; Dr Sm 206,298 and references, RS Sem i. 43; 2nd ed. 42and references, HPS 2 Samuel 6:10; but Bae Rel 10 servant of man, אֱדֹם = אָדָם, which is thought possible by Nö ZMG xlii (1888), 470 Buhl Edomiter 49); —
1 the Gittite who harboured the ark 2 Samuel 6:10,11 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 6:12 (twice in verse) = 1 Chronicles 13:13,14 (twice in verse), 1 Chronicles 15:25; ᵐ5 Αβεδδαρα, ᵐ5 L Αβεδδαδαν. 2 (=
1 ?) one of the chief Levitical singers and doorkeepers 1 Chronicles 15:18,21,24; 1 Chronicles 16:5,38 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 26:4,8 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 26:15; ᵐ5 Αβαεδωμ, Αβδεδωμ, etc., ᵐ5 L Αβεδδομ.
3 the family of the same 2 Chronicles 25:24 (not in "" 2 Kings 14:14).