Bible Names

Obadiah: meaning of the name

Obadiah means “servant of the Lord.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Obadiah in Hebrew and Greek

עֹבַדְיָה H5662

ʻÔbadyâh (o-bad-yaw') — Obadjah, the name of thirteen Israelites

or עֹבַדְיָהוּ; active participle of H5647 (עָבַד) and H3050 (יָהּ); serving Jah;

People named Obadiah in the Bible

Obadiah in Scripture

“Obadiah” appears in 19 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 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

    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 fed them with bread and water.)

  • 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 horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

  • 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

    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

    So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

  • 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

    And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.