Obodas
(Ὀβόδας, Ὀβέδας), or O'BEDAS.
1. A king of the Arabs of Gaulonitis. Alexander Jannaeus invaded his territory in B. C. 92, but lost his army by an ambuscade in the mountains of Gadara, and escaped himself with difficulty. (Jos. Ant. 13.13.5. Bell. Jud. 1.4.4.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.