עַבְדִּיʻAbdîy

proper name, masculine: servant of Yah

Pronunciation: ab-dee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5660

Meanings

1. a Levite (1 Chronicles 6:29; 2 Chronicles 29:12)

2. one with a foreign wife (Ezra 10:26)

Same root

עָבַדʻâbad · H5647to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

1 Chronicles 6:44 Heman’s second assistant was Ethan from the clan of Merari. Ethan’s genealogy was traced back through Kishi, Abdi, Malluch,
2 Chronicles 29:12 Then these Levites got right to work: From the clan of Kohath: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah. From the clan of Merari: Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel. From the clan of Gershon: Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah.
Ezra 10:26 From the family of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).