Lexical Definition

‎עֶבֶד‎ ʻEbed (eh'-bed) Ebed ^N:N-M-P
the same as ‎עֶבֶד‎

Ebed.

• § Ebed = "servant"
• Ebed, the name of two Israelites

1) father of Gaal in the time of the judges
2) son of Jonathan and one of the sons of Adin who returned from exile with Ezra

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. ‎עֶ֫בֶד‎ proper name, masculine (servant of God = ‎עַבְדְּאֵל‎); —

1. father of Gaal Judg 9:26; Judg 9:28; Judg 9:30; Judg 9:31; Judg 9:35 (GFM, after Hollenb^{ThLz 1891, 371} [compare Bu^{Ib. 1892, 63}] ‎עֹבֵד‎, as ᵐ5^L; see also Gray^{Prop. N. 184, 272}); ᵐ5 Ιωβηλ, A ᵐ5^L Αβεδ.

2. a companion of Ezra Ezra 8:6 ᵐ5 Ωβηθ, ᵐ5^L Αμιναδαβ. — For list of Arabic names beginning with see Nö^{ZMG xli (1887), 724 ff.}, compare also Id^{ib, xlii (1888), 486} We^{Heid. 2, 2 ff}.

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