ABIDA (father hath knowledge).A son of Midian (Gen_25:4, 1Ch_1:33).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Abi'da. (father of knowledge). A son of Midian. Gen_25:4; 1Ch_1:33.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
a-bı̄?da (אבידע, 'ăbhı̄dhā‛, ?father of knowledge,? or ?my father knows?): A son of Midian and grandson of Abraham and Keturah (Gen_25:4; 1Ch_1:33). Abidah in the King James Version in Gen.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Abida
[many Abi'da] (Heb. Abida', אֲבַידָע, father of knowledge, i.e. knowing; 1Ch_1:33, Sept.' Αβιδά; Gen_25:4, Αβειδά, Auth. Vers. Abidah, the fourth of the five sons of Midian, the son of Abraham by Keturah (Gen_25:1; 1Ch_1:33), and apparently the head of a tribe in the peninsula of Arabia, B.C. post 2000. SEE ARABIA. Josephus (Ant. 1:15, 1) calls him Ebidas (Εβιδᾶς). For the city Abida, SEE ABILA.
Abida
in Mongolian mythology, was a deity of the Kalmucks, that had much resemblance to Siva of India. Abida rules over the spirits of the dead, admits the virtuous into Paradise, and sends the bad back to the earth with other bodies. This deity lives in heaven, to which leads a path all of silver.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.