אֲבִינָדָבʼĂbîynâdâb
Abinadab, the name of four Israelites
Pronunciation: ab-ee-naw-dawb' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H41
Meanings
1. a man of Gibeah in whose house the ark tarried (1 Samuel 7:1; 2 Samuel 6:3; 2 Samuel 6:4)
2. a son of Jesse (1 Samuel 16:8; 1 Samuel 17:13; 1 Kings 4:11)
3. a son of Saul (1 Samuel 31:2; 1 Chronicles 8:33; 1 Chronicles 9:39)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 12 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 7:1 So the men of Kiriath-jearim came to get the Ark of the Lord. They took it to the hillside home of Abinadab and ordained Eleazar, his son, to be in charge of it.
- 1 Samuel 16:8 Then Jesse told his son Abinadab to step forward and walk in front of Samuel. But Samuel said, “This is not the one the Lord has chosen.”
- 1 Samuel 17:13 Jesse’s three oldest sons—Eliab, Abinadab, and Shimea—had already joined Saul’s army to fight the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 31:2 The Philistines closed in on Saul and his sons, and they killed three of his sons—Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malkishua.
- 2 Samuel 6:3 They placed the Ark of God on a new cart and brought it from Abinadab’s house, which was on a hill. Uzzah and Ahio, Abinadab’s sons, were guiding the cart
- 2 Samuel 6:4 that carried the Ark of God. Ahio walked in front of the Ark.
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).