Lexical Summary Abia: Abijah, Abia, the name of two Israelites Original Word: ἈβιάTransliteration: Abia Phonetic Spelling: (ab-ee-ah') Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Short Definition: Abijah, Abia, the name of two Israelites Meaning: Abijah -- the name of two Israelites Strong's Concordance Abia. Of Hebrew origin ('Abiyah); Abijah, the name of two Israelites -- Abia. see HEBREW 'Abiyah Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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. 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. |
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