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אֲחִיָּה

ʼĂchîyâh · H281 · Hebrew · proper noun · 24 occurrences

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This name belongs to 9 people

Meanings

  1. Ahijah

    A man, the son of Ahitub and a descendant of Eli, who was a priest

    Examples

    1 Samuel 14:3 and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the LORD at Shiloh, was wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

    1 Samuel 14:18 Then Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark of God here.” For at that time the ark of God was with the sons of Israel.

  2. Ahijah

    A man, the son of Shisha and a secretary of King Solomon

    Examples

    1 Kings 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the secretary;

  3. Ahijah

    A man who was a prophet in the time of King Jeroboam

    Examples

    1 Kings 11:29 And it came about at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had clothed himself with a new cloak; and both of them were alone in the field.

    1 Kings 11:30 Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.

    1 Kings 12:15 So the king did not listen to the people; because it was a turn of events from the LORD, in order to establish His word which the LORD spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

  4. Ahijah

    Man; father of Baasha, king of Israel

    Examples

    1 Kings 15:27 Then Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha struck and killed him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.

    1 Kings 15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah became king over all Israel at Tirzah, and he reigned for twenty-four years.

    1 Kings 21:22 and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and because you have misled Israel into sin.

  5. Ahijah

    Man; son of Jerahmeel; tribe of Judah

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 2:25 Now the sons of Jerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron, were Ram the firstborn, then Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.

  6. Ahijah

    Man; son of Ehud; tribe of Benjamin

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 8:7 namely, Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera—he exiled them; and he fathered Uzza and Ahihud.

  7. Ahijah

    A man who was a warrior in the time of King David

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

  8. Ahijah

    A man of the tribe of Levi, a Levite in the time of King David

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 26:20 The Levites, their relatives, were in charge of the treasures of the house of God and of the treasures of the dedicated gifts.

  9. Ahijah

    A man who was a chief after the exile

    Examples

    Nehemiah 10:26 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

10 occurrences in 5 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

5 occurrences in 5 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

8 occurrences in 4 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of People003001007
אֲחִיָּה is the personal name borne by several figures, including the priest at Shiloh who carried the ephod for Saul.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H281. Achiyyah אֲחִיָּה אֲחִיָּ֫הוּ, (always, except where other form noted), אֲחִי…
H281. Achiyyah
אֲחִיָּה אֲחִיָּ֫הוּ, (always, except where other form noted), אֲחִי
proper name, masculine (brother of Yah(u), compare Phoenician חמלך brother of Milk, & especially אחתמלך sister of Milk, where אחת must be construct since מלך is a male deity; compare Carthaginian חתמלקרת Eut213).
1 a priest 1Sa 14:3, 1Sa 14:18.
2 Scribe 1Ki 4:3.
3 Prophet 1Ki 11:29-30, 1Ki 12:15; 1Ki 14:2, 1Ki 14:4; 1Ki 15:29; 2Ch 9:29; 1Ki 14:4-5, 1Ki 14:6, 1Ki 14:18; 2Ch 10:15 (last five אֲחִיָהוּ ).
4 father of king Baasha 1Ki 15:27, 1Ki 15:33; 1Ki 21:22; 2Ki 9:9 .
5 grandson of Hezron 1Ch 2:25, or perhaps proper name, feminine, mother of preceding four, compare Be.
6 son of Ehud, of Benj. 1Ch 8:7 = אֲחוֺחַ, 1Ch 8:4.
7 one of David's heroes 1Ch 11:36.
8 a Levite, David's time 1Ch 26:20 .
9 a chief man under Nehem. Neh 10:27.
10 a Gadite 1Ch 5:15 (אֲחִי).
11 a man of Asher 1Ch 7:34 (id.)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of People24 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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