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Zebadiah meaning

Zebadiah in Biblical Hebrew
זבדיה
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🔼The name Zebadiah: Summary

Meaning
Yah Has Given, Gift Of Yah
Etymology
From (1) the verb זבד (zabad), to give, and (2) יה (yah), the shortened name of the Lord.
Related names
• Via זבד (zabad): Ammizabad, Elzabad, Jehozabad, Jozabad, Zabad, Zabbai, Zabbud, Zabdi, Zabdiel, Zabud, Zebedee, Zebidah
• Via יה (yah): See the 'browse by form' menu for a long list of yah-names.

🔼The name Zebadiah in the Bible

The name Zebadiah is among the most popular in the Bible. There are up to nine men listed with that name, not counting the Greek version Zebedee or any of the truncated forms listed above.

The Zebadiahs of the Bible are:

  • A son of Beriah of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 8:15).
  • A son of Elpaal of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 8:17).
  • One of two sons of Jeroham of Gedor and brother of Joelah. Both men joined David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:1-7).
  • A gatekeeper and the third son of Meshelemiah, son of Kore of Asaph (1 Chronicles 26:2).
  • A military sub-commander and son of Asahel, the brother of Joab (1 Chronicles 27:7).
  • A Levite teacher in service of king Jehoshaphat of Judah (2 Chronicles 17:8).
  • A son of Ishmael of Judah (2 Chronicles 19:11).
  • A son of Michael who joined Ezra in the return from exile (Ezra 8:8).
  • A son of Immer who pledged to divorce his foreign wife (Ezra 10:20).

🔼Etymology of the name Zebadiah

The name Zebadiah consists of two elements; the final part comes from יה (Yah) = יהו (Yahu) = יו (Yu), which in turn are abbreviated forms of the Tetragrammaton; the name of the Lord: YHWH.

The first part of the name Zebadiah comes from the verb זבד (zabad), meaning to give:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
זבד

The verb זבד (zabad) means to give and the noun זבד (zebed) means gift. Both these words are used only once, in Genesis 30:20. These words' more common equivalents come from the root נתן (natan).

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🔼Zebadiah meaning

For a meaning of the name Zebadiah, NOBSE Study Bible Name List reads Yahweh Has Bestowed. BDB Theological Dictionary proposes Yah Hath Bestowed. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names has Gift Of The Lord.