STRONGS NUMBER H5658


Word Summary
Abdon: four Israelites, also a Levitical city
Original Word: עַבְדוֹן
Transliteration: Abdon
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-dohn')
Part of Speech: proper name; proper name, masculine ; proper name, of a location; proper name, of a people; proper name, masculine or of a people; proper name, of a mountain
Short Definition: four Israelites, also a Levitical city
Meaning: Abdon -- four Israelites, also a Levitical city
Strong's Concordance
Abdon

From abad; servitude; Abdon, the name of a place in Palestine and of four Israelites -- Abdon. Compare Ebron.

see HEBREW abad

see HEBREW Ebron

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5658. Abdon

עַבְדּוֺןproper name I.

proper name, masculine 1. a judge Judges 12:13, 15, ᵐ5Αβδων, A ᵐ5L Λαβδω(μ); (Ew compare בְּדָן1 Samuel 12:11, but read בָּרָק‎, see בְּדָן‎ above).

2 a Benjamite 1 Chronicles 8:23, ᵐ5Αβαδων, A ᵐ5L Αβδων.

3 son of Jehiel a Gibeonite 1 Chronicles 8:30; 9:36; ᵐ5Αβαλων, Σαβαδων, A Αβδων, Σαβδων, ᵐ5L Αβδων.

4 son of Micah2 Chronicles 34:20, ᵐ5Αβδοδομ, A ᵐ5L Αβδων (= עַכְבּוֺר2 Kings 22:12). II.

proper name, of a location Levitical city in Asher Joshua 21:30; 1 Chronicles 6:59, ᵐ5Δαββων, Αβαραν, A ᵐ5L Αβδων (20 Manuscripts read עַבְדֹּןJoshua 19:28 for עֶבְרֹן‎), `Abde, GuérinGal 2, 37 compare BuhlGeogr. 230.

עוֺבָל‎, I. עֵיבָלproper name, of a people Arabian people, descended from Joktan according to Genesis 10:28 (ᵐ5L Γαιβαλ); = עֵיבָל1 Chronicles 1:22 (ᵐ5L Ηβηλ). On location compare GlaserSkizze ii. 426.

I. עֵיבָל‎ see עוֺבָל‎ above

II. עֵיבָלproper name, masculine or of a people name in Edom, Genesis 36:23 (ᵐ5Γαιβηλ), = 1 Chronicles 1:40 (ᵐ5Γαιβηλ), A Γαοβηλ ᵐ5L Ουβαλ); according to GlaserSkizze ii. 426 possibly = foregoing (compare with name of (god) B¢l, WklGeschichte. Israel 120; Alttest. Unters. 117 f.).

III. עֵיבָלproper name, of a mountain Ebal, the mountain of cursing, north of Shechem (Nabulus), and opposite Mt. Gerizim (mountain of blessing, south of Shechem), Deuteronomy 11:29, also Joshua 8:30, 33 (D); ᵐ5Γαιβαλ (connection with above √ dubious; on בל‎ = B¢l, compare GrayProp. N. 124 n., and references); — on Ebal see RobBR ii. 275 ff. GASmGeogr. Ch. vi. DiDeuteronomy 11:29 Drib. BdPal. (1898), 257.

עבץ‎ ( √ of following; meaning unknown).