Bible Person

Zabdi

Meaning: same as Zabad · Male · 4 cross references

Zabdi is the ancestor of Achan in Joshua 7 and part of the Judahite line remembered in relation to that act of disobedience. His name becomes important through the tracing of guilt back through a specific household. First appears in Josh 7:1.1

AI summary: Zabdi matters because the cross references present him within the family chain through which Achan's sin is publicly identified. The narrative's careful tracing from tribe to household to individual gives the patronymic real weight, showing that covenant memory is particular rather than abstract. Later genealogical overlap only deepens the sense of a remembered household under scrutiny. Taken together, the material presents Zabdi as the ancestral figure whose household becomes linked to Achan's decisive act of disobedience.1