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Abda
ABDA (ăb'da, Heb. ‘avdā’, probably servant of God)
The father of Adoniram (
ABDA ăb’ də (עַבְדָּ֖א, servant, worshiper). Possibly a shortened form of Obadiah to eliminate pronouncing the divine name Yah. 1. Father of Adoniram, a high official of Solomon in charge of forced labor (
2. Son of Shammua, son of Galal, a postexilic chief Levite in Jerusalem (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
(`abhda’, perhaps, by abbreviation, "servant of Yahweh"):
(1) The father of Adoniram, King Solomon’s superintendent of forced labor (
(2) A Levite mentioned in the statistical note in (