obadiah

Other forms of obadiah

plural

obadiahs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about obadiah

What does obadiah mean?

obadiah means "a Hebrew minor prophet". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obadiah?

obadiah has 4 syllables: o-ba-di-ah. The stress falls on "di". In IPA it is /ˌoʊbəˈdaɪə/.

What is another word for obadiah?

Close synonyms include Abdias, Abdias, Book of Obadiah. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is obadiah a common word?

obadiah is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.