אֲחִימַעַץʼĂchîymaʻats

אֲחִימַ֫עַץ: proper name, masculine: my brother is wrath

Pronunciation: akh-ee-mah'-ats · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H290

Meanings

1. son of Zadok (2 Samuel 15:27; 2 Samuel 15:36; 2 Samuel 17:17)

2. father-in-law of Saul (1 Samuel 14:50)

מעץ: proper name, masculine: be wrathful, be enraged

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 15 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 14:50 Saul’s wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz. The commander of Saul’s army was Abner, the son of Saul’s uncle Ner.
  • 2 Samuel 15:27 The king also told Zadok the priest, “Look, here is my plan. You and Abiathar should return quietly to the city with your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan.
  • 2 Samuel 15:36 and they will send their sons Ahimaaz and Jonathan to tell me what is going on.”
  • 2 Samuel 17:17 Jonathan and Ahimaaz had been staying at En-rogel so as not to be seen entering and leaving the city. Arrangements had been made for a servant girl to bring them the message they were to take to King David.
  • 2 Samuel 17:20 When Absalom’s men arrived, they asked her, “Have you seen Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied, “They were here, but they crossed over the brook.” Absalom’s men looked for them without success and returned to Jerusalem.
  • 2 Samuel 18:19 Then Zadok’s son Ahimaaz said, “Let me run to the king with the good news that the Lord has rescued him from his enemies.”
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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).