Lexicon Abia: Abijah, Abia, the name of two Israelites Original Word: Ἀβιά, ὁPart of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Abia Phonetic Spelling: (ab-ee-ah') Short Definition: Abijah Definition: Abijah, (a) a king, son of Rehoboam, (b) founder of the eighth class of priests. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof Hebrew origin AbiyyahDefinitionAbijah, Abia, the name of two Isr. NASB TranslationAbijah (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 7: ἈβιάἈβιά, indeclinable proper name ( Josephus, Antiquities 7, 10, 3; 8, 10, 1 ὁ Ἀβίας ( Winer's Grammar, § 6, 1 m.), ), אֲבִיָה and אֲבִיָהוּ (my father is Jehovah), Abia (or Abijah, cf. B. D. under the word), 1. a king of Judah, son of Rehoboam: Matthew 1:7 (1 Kings 14:31; 1 Kings 15:1). 2. a priest, the head of a sacerdotal family, from whom, when David divided the priests into twenty-four classes (1 Chronicles 24:10), the class Abia, the eighth in order, took its name: Luke 1:5.
Strong's Abia. Of Hebrew origin ('Abiyah); Abijah, the name of two Israelites -- Abia. see HEBREW 'Abiyah |
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