אֲחִיָּהʼĂchîyâh
proper name, masculine: brother of Yah(u), brother of Milk, &
Pronunciation: akh-ee-yaw · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H281
Meanings
1. a priest (1 Samuel 14:3; 1 Samuel 14:18)
2. a scribe (1 Kings 4:3)
3. a prophet (1 Kings 11:29; 1 Kings 11:30; 1 Kings 12:15)
4. father of king Baasha (1 Kings 15:27; 1 Kings 15:33; 1 Kings 21:22)
5. grandson of Hezron (1 Chronicles 2:25)
6. son of Ehud, of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 8:7; 1 Chronicles 8:4)
7. one of David's heroes (1 Chronicles 11:36)
8. a Levite, David's time (1 Chronicles 26:20)
9. a chief man under Nehemiah (Nehemiah 10:27)
10. a Gadite (1 Chronicles 5:15)
11. a man of Asher (1 Chronicles 7:34)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 24 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 14:3 Among Saul’s men was Ahijah the priest, who was wearing the ephod, the priestly vest. Ahijah was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord who had served at Shiloh. No one realized that Jonathan had left the Israelite camp.
- 1 Samuel 14:18 Then Saul shouted to Ahijah, “Bring the ephod here!” For at that time Ahijah was wearing the ephod in front of the Israelites.
- 1 Kings 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were court secretaries. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the royal historian.
- 1 Kings 11:29 One day as Jeroboam was leaving Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh met him along the way. Ahijah was wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone in a field,
- 1 Kings 11:30 and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.
- 1 Kings 12:15 So the king paid no attention to the people. This turn of events was the will of the Lord, for it fulfilled the Lord’s message to Jeroboam son of Nebat through the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh.
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).