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Abdi
ABDI (ăb'dī, Heb. ‘avdî, probably servant of Jehovah)
A Levite, father of Kishi, the grandfather of David’s singer Ethan (
ABDI ăb’ dī (עֲדָיָֽה, servant of, conjectured to be abbreviation of עבדיה servant of Yah. LXX
2. A descendant of Elam, who had married a foreign woman during the Exile contrary to the law of Moses, but who put away his wife and children in obedience to Ezra and a committee of chosen men (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
(`abhdi, probably by abbreviation "servant of Yahweh"):
(1) A Levite, father of Kishi and grandfather of King David’s singer Ethan (
(2) A Levite, father of the Kish who was in service at the beginning of the reign of Hezekiah (
(3) A man who in Ezra’s time had married a foreign wife (