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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Abdi

The Bible

Bible Usage:

  • Abdi used 3 times.

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: Yes
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: No
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Abdi

Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Abdi

my servant


Naves Topical Index
Abdi

Father of Kish.
2 Chronicles 29:12


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Abdi

(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.)


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Abdicant

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


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Abdicate

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.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Abdicated

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


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Abdicating

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


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Abdication

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.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Abdicative

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


Easton's Bible Dictionary
Abdiel

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


Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Abdiel

servant of God


Naves Topical Index
Abdiel

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Abdiel

(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.)


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Abditive

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


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Abditory

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