Obed

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

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.

• Obadiah

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

• Bode, Dobe, Debo, bode, dobe, bedo

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.bɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔbɛt
• Syllabification: O‧bed

Learned borrowing from Latin Obed.

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

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Обед / Obed.

Obed m inan

1. Obed (a village in Croatia)

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