Abdi means my servant. It is the name of three different men in the Bible. Each one is mentioned only one time.
- He was the grandfather of a certain Ethan who was a Levite of the family of Merari (1Chronicles 6:44And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
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He is listed as one of the sons of Elam (Ezra 10:26And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
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[11] Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
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