ab´da עבדּ×, (‛abhdaÌ„), perhaps, by abbreviation, “servant of Yahwehâ€): (1) The father of Adoniram, King Solomon's superintendent of forced labor (). (2) A Levite mentioned in the statistical note in Neh (). This “Abda the son of Shammua†is in the partly duplicate passage in 1 Ch () called “Obadiah the son of Shemaiah.