H5660 H5660
Personal name meaning 'servant of Yah' or 'my servant'; borne by a Levite and a man with a foreign wife
Avdi appears in Chronicles and Ezra as the name of two distinct individuals. The name likely derives from the root meaning 'servant' with a theophoric element, though some scholars note connections to Aramaic and Nabataean forms. One Avdi was a Levite from the family line documented in Chronicles, while another appears in Ezra's list of those who had taken foreign wives during the exile. The multilingual evidence shows consistent transliteration patterns, with some versions preserving the Hebrew form directly.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A personal name attested three times in post-exilic and genealogical texts. The name appears in Levitical genealogies (1 Chronicles 6, 2 Chronicles 29) and in Ezra's reform account. Spanish and English preserve the name as 'Avdi/Abdi,' while French and German show variation in handling the conjunction and the proper noun itself, reflecting different translation philosophies for proper names in biblical genealogies. 3×
AR["عَبدي", "عَبْدِي", "وَ-عَبْدِي"]·ben["অব্দির", "অব্দীর", "আর-আব্দী"]·DE["Knechte-von", "und-Knechte-von"]·EN["Avdi", "and-Avdi"]·FR["[ועבדי]", "[עבדי]"]·heb["ו-עבדי", "עבדי"]·HI["अब्दी", "अब्दी-का", "और-अब्दी"]·ID["Abdi", "dan-Abdi"]·IT["[ועבדי]", "[עבדי]"]·jav["Abdi", "lan-Abdi"]·KO["그리고-압디와", "압디", "압디의"]·PT["Avdi", "e-Avdi"]·RU["Авди", "и-Авди"]·ES["Abdi", "y-Avdi"]·SW["Abdi", "na-Abdi"]·TR["Avdi'nin", "ve-Abdi"]·urd["اور-عبدی", "عبدی-کا"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† עַבְדִּי n.pr.m. (= עֹבַדְיָה servant of Yah; v. however, GrayProp. N. 149 ff. and cf. Old Aramaic עבדו, Nab.Palm. עבדי Lzb333, 334 Cook87);— 1. a Levite 1 Ch 6:29; 2 Ch 29:12; 𝔊 Αβδ(ε)ι, 𝔊L 1 Ch Αβδια. 2. one with a foreign wife Ezr 10:26; 𝔊 Αβδε(ι)α.