# עֹבַדְיָה (ovadyah)

Israeli respelling: o-vad-yah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5662. 19 Old Testament occurrences.

Obadjah, the name of thirteen Israelites

King James renderings: Obadiah.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ovadyah-h5662

## Occurrences

- [1 Kings 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/3) — And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
- [1 Kings 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/4) — For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and f…
- [1 Kings 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/5) — And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the…
- [1 Kings 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/6) — So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
- [1 Kings 18:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/7) — And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
- [1 Kings 18:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/16) — So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
- [1 Chronicles 3:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/3/21) — And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.
- [1 Chronicles 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/7/3) — And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
- [1 Chronicles 8:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/8/38) — And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons…
- [1 Chronicles 9:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/9/16) — And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the…
- [1 Chronicles 9:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/9/44) — And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of A…
- [1 Chronicles 12:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/9) — Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
- [1 Chronicles 27:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/27/19) — Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:
- [2 Chronicles 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/17/7) — Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Mic…
- [2 Chronicles 34:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/34/12) — And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah a…
- [Ezra 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/9) — Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
- [Nehemiah 10:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/10/5) — Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
- [Nehemiah 12:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/25) — Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
- [Obadiah 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/obadiah/1/1) — The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the h…