ab'-da (`abhda', perhaps, by abbreviation, "servant of Yahweh"):



(1) The father of Adoniram, King Solomon's superintendent of forced labor (1Ki 4:6).



(2) A Levite mentioned in the statistical note in (Ne 11:17). This "Abda the son of Shammua" is in the partly duplicate passage in (1Ch 9:16) called "Obadiah the son of Shemaiah."