אֲבִיʼĂbîy

Abi, Hezekiah's mother

Pronunciation: ab-ee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H21

Meanings

1. king of Judah, son & successor of Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:31; 1 Kings 15:1; 1 Kings 15:7)

2. 2nd son of Samuel (1 Samuel 8:2; 1 Chronicles 6:13)

3. son of Jeroboam I (1 Kings 14:1)

4. son of Becher, a Benjamite (1 Chronicles 7:8)

5. head of a priestly house (1 Chronicles 24:10)

6. id. (Nehemiah 10:8; Nehemiah 12:4; Nehemiah 12:17)

7. wife of Hezron (1 Chronicles 2:24)

8. mother of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:2; 2 Chronicles 29:1)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Kings 18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).