Midvash

אֲבִיָּהʼĂbîyâh

Abijah, the name of several Israelite men and two Israelitesses

Pronunciation: ab-ee-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H29

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 25 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 8:2 Joel and Abijah, his oldest sons, held court in Beersheba.
  • 1 Kings 14:1 At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became very sick.
  • 1 Chronicles 2:24 Soon after Hezron died in the town of Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah gave birth to a son named Ashhur (the father of Tekoa).
  • 1 Chronicles 3:10 The descendants of Solomon were Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat,
  • 1 Chronicles 6:28 The sons of Samuel were Joel (the older) and Abijah (the second).
  • 1 Chronicles 7:8 The sons of Beker were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth.
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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).