Word

אֲחִיקָם

ʼĂchîyqâm · H296 · Hebrew · proper noun · 20 occurrences

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Person

Meanings

  1. Ahikam

    A man who was a son of Shaphan, an official in the time of King Josiah and father of Gedaliah, governor of Judah at the time of the exile

    Examples

    2 Kings 22:12 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,

    2 Kings 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (and she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her.

    2 Kings 25:22 Now as for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan over them.

How it’s used In 4 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 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

17 occurrences in 2 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
אֲחִיקָם is the personal name of the son of Shaphan who protected Jeremiah and was later father of the governor Gedaliah.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H296. Achiqam אֲחִיקָם proper name, masculine (my brother has arisen) son of Shaphan,…
H296. Achiqam
אֲחִיקָם proper name, masculine (my brother has arisen) son of Shaphan, Josiah's time 2Ki 22:12, 2Ki 22:14; 2Ch 34:20; protector of Jeremiah Jer 26:24; father of Gedaliah 2Ki 25:22; Jer 39:14; Jer 40:5-6, Jer 40:7, Jer 40:9, Jer 40:11, Jer 40:14, Jer 40:16; Jer 41:1-2, Jer 41:6, Jer 41:10, Jer 41:16, Jer 41:18; Jer 43:6.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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