אַחְאָבʼAchʼâb
proper name, masculine: Ahab
Pronunciation: akh-awb' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H256
Meanings
1. son of Omri, king of Israel (1 Kings 16:28; 1 Kings 16:29; 1 Kings 18:1)
2. false prophet, time of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 29:21; Jeremiah 29:22)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 93 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 16:28 When Omri died, he was buried in Samaria. Then his son Ahab became the next king.
- 1 Kings 16:29 Ahab son of Omri began to rule over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Samaria twenty-two years.
- 1 Kings 16:30 But Ahab son of Omri did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, even more than any of the kings before him.
- 1 Kings 16:33 Then he set up an Asherah pole. He did more to provoke the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than any of the other kings of Israel before him.
- 1 Kings 17:1 Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”
- 1 Kings 18:1 Later on, in the third year of the drought, the Lord said to Elijah, “Go and present yourself to King Ahab. Tell him that I will soon send rain!”
See every passage
- 1 Kings 16:28, 16:29, 16:30, 16:33, 17:1, 18:1, 18:2, 18:3, 18:5, 18:6, 18:9, 18:12, 18:16, 18:17, 18:20, 18:41, 18:42, 18:44, 18:45, 18:46, 19:1, 20:2, 20:13, 20:14, 21:1, 21:2, 21:3, 21:4, 21:8, 21:15, 21:16, 21:18, 21:20, 21:21, 21:24, 21:25, 21:27, 21:29, 22:20, 22:39, 22:40, 22:41, 22:49, 22:51
- 2 Kings 1:1, 3:1, 3:5, 8:16, 8:18, 8:25, 8:27, 8:28, 8:29, 9:7, 9:8, 9:9, 9:25, 9:29, 10:1, 10:10, 10:11, 10:17, 10:18, 10:30, 21:3, 21:13
- 2 Chronicles 18:1, 18:2, 18:3, 18:19, 21:6, 21:13, 22:3, 22:4, 22:5, 22:6, 22:7, 22:8
- Jeremiah 29:21, 29:22
- Micah 6:16
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).