Obadiah,

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Obadiah
       n 1: a Hebrew minor prophet [syn: {Abdias}]
       2: an Old Testament book telling Obadiah's prophecies; the
          shortest book in the Christian Bible [syn: {Abdias}, {Book
          of Obadiah}]



From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Obadiah
     servant of the Lord. (1.) An Israelite who was chief in the
     household of King Ahab (1 Kings 18:3). Amid great spiritual
     degeneracy he maintained his fidelity to God, and interposed to
     protect The Lord's prophets, an hundred of whom he hid at great
     personal risk in a cave (4, 13). Ahab seems to have held Obadiah
     in great honour, although he had no sympathy with his piety (5,
     6, 7). The last notice of him is his bringing back tidings to
     Ahab that Elijah, whom he had so long sought for, was at hand
     (9-16). "Go," said Elijah to him, when he met him in the way,
     "go tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here."
     
       (2.) A chief of the tribe of Issachar (1 Chr. 7:3).
     
       (3.) A descendant of Saul (1 Chr. 8:38).
     
       (4.) A Levite, after the Captivity (1 Chr. 9:16).
     
       (5.) A Gadite who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:9).
     
       (6.) A prince of Zebulun in the time of David (1 Chr. 27:19).
     
       (7.) One of the princes sent by Jehoshaphat to instruct the
     people in the law (2 Chr. 17:7).
     
       (8.) A Levite who superintended the repairs of the temple
     under Josiah (2 Chr. 34:12).
     
       (9.) One who accompanied Ezra on the return from Babylon (Ezra
     8:9).
     
       (10.) A prophet, fourth of the minor prophets in the Hebrew
     canon, and fifth in the LXX. He was probably contemporary with
     Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Of his personal history nothing is known.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Obadiah, servant of the Lord