Lexicon Achab: "father's brother," a king of Isr., also a false prophet Original Word: אַחְאָבPart of Speech: proper name, masculine Transliteration: Achab Phonetic Spelling: (akh-awb') Short Definition: Ahab NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ach and abDefinition"father's brother," a king of Isr., also a false prophet NASB TranslationAhab (91), Ahab's (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אַחְאָב91 proper name, masculine Ahab ( father's brother; = אחיאב Nö ZMG 1886, 172, Ἀχίαβος was a nephew of Herod; compare like name in Syriac, given ob maximum cum parte suo similitudinem, BarHebr Chron. Ecclesiastes 2.23 compare LCB 1879, 1339. In many cases, however, the meaning of proper names compared with אח is dubious, & perfect consistency, especially in comparison with compounds of אָב, seems impossible; compare remark below אביאל and further We Skizzen, iii. 1 f, Dl Pr. cap. vi) — אַחְאָב1Kings 16:28 +; וּכְאֶחָב Jeremiah 29:22 — 1 son of Omri, king of Isr. 1 Kings 16:28,29; 1 Kings 18:1,2,3; 1 Kings 20:2,13,14 41t. 1Kings, 27 t. 2Kings, 14 t. 2 Chronicles; Micah 6:16. 2 false prophet, time of Jeremiah. Jeremiah 29:21,22. אַחָב see אַחְאָב.
Strong's Ahab Once (by contraction) oechab (Jer. 29:22) {ekh- awb'}; from 'ach and 'ab; brother (i.e. Friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon -- Ahab. see HEBREW 'ach see HEBREW 'ab |
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