EBED

(Eʹbed) [servant].

1. Father of Gaal, the one who led the landowners of Shechem in an unsuccessful rebellion against Abimelech.—Judg. 9:26, 29, 39-41.

2. Son of Jonathan. Ebed, accompanied by fifty males of the paternal house of Adin, returned with Ezra to Jerusalem from Babylon.—Ezra 8:6.