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Meaning and etymology of the name Abdi
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Abdi 
There are two men named Abdi in the Bible, both relatively late in the narrative. The first Abdi is a son of Malluch of the tribe of Levi (1 Chronicles 6:44). His son is called Kish or Kishi (2 Chronicles 29:12). The other Abdi is a son of Elam and is among those who divorced their foreign wives during the purge of Ezra (Ezra 10:26).
determines the kind of work that's done. When Jacob "works" Laban, he's not
The masculine noun  (ebed) meaning slave or servant;
The masculine noun (abad) means work.
The feminine noun  (aboda) means labor or service;
The feminine noun  (abudda) means service or the performance of household servants;
The feminine noun  (abdut) means servitude, bondage;
The masculine noun  (mabad) means work.
The final yod may be a possessive, rendering Abdi the meaning of My Servant. The name Abdi may also be seen as a truncated form of  (Obadiah), which means that the final yod is a remnant of  , Jah, which in turn is an abbreviated form of the Tetragrammaton  , YHWH or Yahweh.
Hence BDB Theological Dictionary reads Servant of Yah, and NOBS Study Bible Name List reads Servant Of Yahweh. Alfred Jones (Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names) is a bit more proper and reads Servant, i.e. of God
Other names that come from the verb abad are
Abda,
Abdeel,
Abdiel,
Abdon,
Abednego,
Ebed,
Ebed-melech,
Obadiah,
Obed and
Obed-edom.
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