אֲבִיָּםʼĂbîyâm
Abijam (or Abijah), a king of Judah
Pronunciation: ab-ee-yawm' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H38
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
- אָבʼâb · H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
- יָםyâm · H3220a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
- שִׁמְאָםShimʼâm · H8043Shimam, an Israelite
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 14:31 When Rehoboam died, he was buried among his ancestors in the City of David. His mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. Then his son Abijam became the next king.
- 1 Kings 15:1 Abijam began to rule over Judah in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel.
- 1 Kings 15:7 The rest of the events in Abijam’s reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. There was constant war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
- 1 Kings 15:8 When Abijam died, he was buried in the City of David. Then his son Asa became the next king.
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).