1. Ebed (personal name) — The proper noun designating Ebed (meaning 'servant'), a personal name borne by at least two individuals in the Hebrew Bible: (1) the father of Gaal who opposed Abimelech at Shechem (Judg 9:26-35), and (2) a family head who returned from Babylonian exile with Ezra (Ezra 8:6). All 6 occurrences refer to persons bearing this same name. The two clusters differ only in minor transliteration (eng 'Ebed' vs 'Eved', spa 'Ébed' vs 'Eved') but the underlying Hebrew form is identical. Multilingual evidence: arb 'عَبَد', swa 'Ebedi', hin 'एबेद', kor '에베드 / 에벳'. 6×
AR["عَبَد"]·ben["এবদ","এবদের"]·DE["Ebed","Knecht"]·EN["Ebed","Eved"]·FR["Ebed","[עבד]"]·heb["עבד"]·HI["एबेद","एबेद-का","एबेद-के"]·ID["Ebed"]·IT["Ebed","[עבד]"]·jav["Ebed","Èbed"]·KO["에베드-의","에벳"]·PT["'Eved","Eved"]·RU["Эвед","Эведа"]·ES["Eved","Ébed"]·SW["Ebedi"]·TR["Ebed","Eved-in"]·urd["عابد","عَبَد-کا","عَبَد-کے"]
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† II. עֶ֫בֶד n.pr.m. (servant of God = עַבְדְּאֵל);— 1. father of Gaal Ju 9:26, 28, 30, 31, 35 (GFM, after HollenbThLz 1891, 371 [cf. BuIb. 1892, 63] עֹבֵד, as 𝔊L; v. also GrayProp. N. 184, 272); 𝔊 Ιωβηλ, A 𝔊L Αβεδ. 2. a companion of Ezra Ezr 8:6; 𝔊 Ωβηθ, 𝔊L Αμιναδαβ.—For list of Arabic names beginning with عبد v. NöZMG xli (1887), 724 ff., cf. also id.ib. xlii (1888), 486 WeHeid. 2, 2 ff.