Word

אַבְנֵר

ʼAbnêr · H74 · Hebrew · proper noun · 63 occurrences

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Person

Abnerfirst named in 1 Samuel 14:5053 verses

Meanings

Abner

A man of the tribe of Benjamin, son of Ner, army commander of King Saul and his son Ish-Bosheth, and father of Jaasiel, in the time of King David

Examples
1 Samuel 14:50 And the name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.
1 Samuel 14:51 Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
1 Samuel 17:55 Now when Saul had seen David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” And Abner said, “By your life, O king, I do not know.”

How it’s used In 6 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

13 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 12
שַׂרcommander, chief, official 4
הֶםthem 1

What it doesIt is the subject

29 occurrences in 19 groups

אָמַרto say 5
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 3
Other words · 17 groups that occur once or twice (21) 21

What is done to itIt is the object

5 occurrences in 5 groups

יָדַעto know 1
מוּתto die 1
קָבַרto bury 1
שׁוּבto return, to turn back 1
שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שֵׁםname 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

14 occurrences in 3 groups

אֵלto, toward 9
אַחַרafter, behind 8
לto/for 8

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

8 occurrences in 7 groups

קֶבֶרgrave, tomb 2
אָבfather 1
בֵּןson 1
דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
דָּםblood 1
אִישׁman, person, each 1

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: אַבְנֵר is the personal name of the commander of Saul's army, the son of Ner.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H74. Abner אֲבִינֵר proper name, masculine (my father is Nêr, or is a lamp compare 2Sa…

H74. Abner
אֲבִינֵר proper name, masculine (my father is Nêr, or is a lamp compare 2Sa 21:17; accusative to LagBN 75 = אֲבֶן (= בֶּן) + נֵר = son of Ner; compare ᵐ5 Ἀβεννηρ) — so only 1Sa 14:50, elsewhere אַבְנֵר — cousin of Saul, and captain of his host 1Sa 14:50-51, 1Sa 17:55 (3 t. in verse) + 52 t. 1 & 2Samuel; + 1Ki 2:5, 1Ki 2:32; 1Ch 26:28; 1Ch 27:21.

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 People63 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

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