אַבְנֵרʼAbnêr

Same root

• אָבʼâb · H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
• נִירnîyr · H5216a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively)

Where it appears

Appears 63 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.
• 1 Samuel 14:51 Saul’s father, Kish, and Abner’s father, Ner, were both sons of Abiel.
• 1 Samuel 17:55 As Saul watched David go out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the commander of his army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “I really don’t know,” Abner declared.
• 1 Samuel 17:57 As soon as David returned from killing Goliath, Abner brought him to Saul with the Philistine’s head still in his hand.
• 1 Samuel 20:25 He sat at his usual place against the wall, with Jonathan sitting opposite him and Abner beside him. But David’s place was empty.
• 1 Samuel 26:5 David slipped over to Saul’s camp one night to look around. Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of his army, were sleeping inside a ring formed by the slumbering warriors.