Obed

See also: obed and oběd

English

Etymology

From Hebrew אובד or עוֹבֵד (Oved, “servant”).

Proper noun

Obed

1. The son of Ruth and Boaz, father of Jesse and grandfather of David, grandson of Naomi.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 4:17:
     :

     And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

2. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
3. A stream draining a part of the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, USA.

Related terms

• Obadiah

Translations

son of Ruth and Boaz

• Cherokee: ᎣᏇᏗ (oquedi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 俄備得 / 俄备得 (zh) (Ébèidé), (Catholic) 敖貝 / 敖贝 (Áobèi)

• Hebrew: עוֹבֵד
• Hindi: ओबेद m (obed)
• Kazakh: Ғабит (Ğabıyt)
• Polish: Obed m
• Russian: Ови́д m (Ovíd)
• Spanish: Obed

male given name

• Hebrew: עוֹבֵד

See also

• Obed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Obed River on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bode, Dobe, Debo, bode, dobe, bedo

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.bɛt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔbɛt
• Syllabification: O‧bed

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin Obed.

Proper noun

Obed m pers

1. (biblical) Obed (father of Jesse, grandfather of the Israelite king David)
   • 1599 (1923 edition), Jakub Wujek, Księga Rut (Biblia, to jest księgi Starego i Nowego Testamentu), Warszawa: Brytyjskie i Zagraniczne Towarzystwo Biblijne, page 263; translation of Ruth, מְגִלַּת רוּת, (Please provide a date or year):

     Urodził się syn Noemi: nazwały imię jego Obed: tenci jest ojciec Izai, ojca Dawidowego. […]

     And a son was born to Naomi: they called his name Obed: this is the father of Jesse, the father of David. […]

   • 2003, Stanisław Kur, chapter 4, in Księga Rut‎^[1], Poznań: Wydawnictwo Pallottinum; translation of Rut, מְגִלַּת רוּת, (Please provide a date or year):

     «Narodził się syn dla Noemi», nadały mu imię Obed. On to jest ojcem Jessego, ojca Dawida. […]

     “A son is born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David. […]

2. (countable, rare) a male given name from Late Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Obed

Declension

Declension of Obed

	singular	plural
nominative	Obed	Obedy/Obedowie
genitive	Obeda	Obedów
dative	Obedowi	Obedom
accusative	Obeda	Obedów
instrumental	Obedem	Obedami
locative	Obedzie	Obedach
vocative	Obedzie	Obedy/Obedowie

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Обед / Obed.

Proper noun

Obed m inan

1. Obed (a village in Croatia)

Declension

Declension of Obed

	singular
nominative	Obed
genitive	Obedu
dative	Obedowi
accusative	Obed
instrumental	Obedem
locative	Obedzie
vocative	Obedzie

Further reading

• “Obed”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)