King James Bible Dictionary

My servant.

1. 1 Chronicles 6:44.

2. 2 Chronicles 29:12.

3. Ezra 10:26.

my servant

Father of Kish.
2 Chronicles 29:12

(my servant).

1. A Merarite, and ancestor of Ethan the singer. (1 Chronicles 6:44) (B.C. before 1015.)
2. The father of Kish, a Merarite, in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 29:12) (B.C. before 736.)
3. One of the Bene-Elam in the time of Ezra, who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:26) (B.C. 659.)

AB'DICANT, adjective [See Abdicate.] Abdicating; renouncing.

AB'DICATE, verb transitive [Latin abdica; ab and dico, to dedicate, to bestow, but the literal primary sense of dico is to send or thrust.]

1. In a general sense, to relinquish, renounce, or abandon.

2. To abandon an office or trust, without a formal resignation to those who conferred it, or without their consent; also to abandon a throne, without a formal surrender of the crown.

3. To relinquish an office before the expiration of the time of service.

4. To reject; to renounce; to abandon as a right.

5. To cast away; to renounce; as to abdicate our mental faculties [Unusual.]

6. In the civil law, to disclaim a son and expel him from the family, as a father; to disinherit during the life of the father.

AB'DICATE, verb intransitive To renounce; to abandon; to cast off; to relinquish, as a right, power, or trust.

Though a King may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

AB'DICATED, participle passive Renounced; relinquished without a formal resignation; abandoned.

AB'DICATING, participle present tense Relinquishing without a formal resignation; abandoning.

ABDICA'TION, noun

1. The act of abdicating; the abandoning of an office or trust, without a formal surrender, or before the usual or stated time of expiration.

2. A casting off; rejection.

AB'DICATIVE, adjective Causing or implying abdication. [Little used.]

Servant of God, (1 Chronicles 5:15), a Gadite chief.

servant of God

A Gadite.
1 Chronicles 5:15

(the servant of God), son of Guni and father of Ahi, one of the Gadites who were settled in the land of Bashan, (1 Chronicles 5:15), in the days of Jotham king of Judah. (B.C. 758.)

AB'DITIVE, adjective [Latin abdo, to hide; ab and do.] Having the power or quality of hiding. [Little used.]

AB'DITORY, noun A place for secreting or preserving goods.