H5654

`Obed

o-bade' ed-ome'

Proper Name Masculine

from the active participle of H5647 and H123; worker of Edom; Obed-Edom, the name of five Israelites: --Obed-edom.

Obed-edom = "servant of Edom"

1. a Levite and a Gittite who kept the ark after Uzzah was slain by God for touching the ark while it was being taken to Jerusalem
2. a Merarite Levite and a singer and gatekeeper
   1. the family descended from him