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Lexicon :: Strong's H256 - 'aḥ'āḇ

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אַחְאָב
Transliteration
'aḥ'āḇ
Pronunciation
akh-awb'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אַחְאָב ʼAchʼâb, akh-awb'; once (by contraction) אֶחָב ʼEchâb (Jeremiah 29:22); from H251 and H1; brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon:—Ahab.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 93x

The KJV translates Strong's H256 in the following manner: Ahab (93x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 93x
The KJV translates Strong's H256 in the following manner: Ahab (93x).

  1. Ahab = "father's brother"

    1. king of Israel, son of Omri, husband of Jezebel

    2. false prophet executed by Nebuchadrezzar, time of Jeremiah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַחְאָב ʼAchʼâb, akh-awb'; once (by contraction) אֶחָב ʼEchâb (Jeremiah 29:22); from H251 and H1; brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon:—Ahab.
STRONGS H256: Abbreviations
אַחְאָב 91 proper name, masculine Ahab (father's brother;＝אחיאב NöZMG 1886, 172, Ἀχίαβος was a nephew of Herod; compare like name in Syriac, given ob maximum cum parte suo similitudinem, Bar Hebræus in EusebiusChronicles ii. 23 compare LCB1879, 1339. In many cases, however, the meaning of proper names compared with H251 אח is dubious, & perfect consistency, especially in comparison with compounds of אָב, seems impossible; compare remark below H22 אביאל and further WeSkizzen, iii. 1 f, DlPr. cap. vi) — אַחְאָב 1 Kings 16:28 +; וּכְאֶחָב Jeremiah 29:22 —
1. son of Omri, king of Israel. 1 Kings 16:28, 29; 1 Kings 18:1, 2, 3; 1 Kings 20:2, 13, 14 + 41 times 1 Kings, + 27 times 2 Kings, + 14 times 2 Chronicles; Micah 6:16.
2. false prophet, time of Jeremiah. Jeremiah 29:21, 22.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Kings

16:28; 16:28; 16:29; 18:1; 18:2; 18:3; 20:2; 20:13; 20:14

Jeremiah

29:21; 29:22; 29:22

Micah

6:16

H256

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H256 matches the Hebrew אַחְאָב ('aḥ'āḇ),
which occurs 93 times in 81 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ki 16:28–2Ki 8:25)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - So `Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomron; and Ach'av his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:29 - In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Yehudah began Ach'av the son of `Omri to reign over Yisra'el: and Ach'av the son of `Omri reigned over Yisra'el in Shomron twenty-two years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:30 - Ach'av the son of `Omri did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - Ach'av made the Asherah; and Ach'av did yet more to provoke the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, to anger than all the kings of Yisra'el who were before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 - Eliyah the Tishbi, who was of the foreigners of Gil`ad, said to Ach'av, As the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:1 - It happened after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Eliyah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ach'av; and I will send rain on the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - Eliyah went to show himself to Ach'av. The famine was sore in Shomron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:3 - Ach'av called `Ovadyah, who was over the household. (Now `Ovadyah feared the LORD greatly:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - Ach'av said to `Ovadyah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:6 - So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ach'av went one way by himself, and `Ovadyah went another way by himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:9 - He said, Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ach'av, to kill me?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:12 - It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ach'av, and he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear the LORD from my youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:16 - So `Ovadyah went to meet Ach'av, and told him; and Ach'av went to meet Eliyah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:17 - It happened, when Ach'av saw Eliyah, that Ach'av said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Yisra'el?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:20 - So Ach'av sent to all the children of Yisra'el, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Karmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:41 - Eliyah said to Ach'av, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:42 - So Ach'av went up to eat and to drink. Eliyah went up to the top of Karmel; and he bowed himself down on the eretz, and put his face between his knees.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - It happened at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there arises a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. He said, Go up, tell Ach'av, Make ready your chariot, and get you down, that the rain not stop you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:45

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:45 - It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ach'av rode, and went to Yizre`el:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:46 - and the hand of the LORD was on Eliyah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ach'av to the entrance of Yizre`el.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 - Ach'av told Izevel all that Eliyah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:2 - He sent messengers to Ach'av king of Yisra'el, into the city, and said to him, Thus says Ben-Hadad,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:13 - Behold, a prophet came near to Ach'av king of Yisra'el, and said, Thus says the LORD, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:14 - Ach'av said, By whom? He said, Thus says the LORD, By the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? He answered, You.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:1 - It happened after these things, that Navot the Yizre`eli had a vineyard, which was in Yizre`el, hard by the palace of Ach'av king of Shomron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - Ach'av spoke to Navot, saying, Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it: or, if it seem good to you, I will give you the worth of it in money.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:3 - Navot said to Ach'av, the LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:4 - Ach'av came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Navot the Yizre`eli had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. He laid him down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:8 - So she wrote letters in Ach'av's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the Zakenim and to the nobles who were in his city, and who lived with Navot.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 - It happened, when Izevel heard that Navot was stoned, and was dead, that Izevel said to Ach'av, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Navot the Yizre`eli, which he refused to give you for money; for Navot is not alive, but dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:16 - It happened, when Ach'av heard that Navot was dead, that Ach'av rose up to go down to the vineyard of Navot the Yizre`eli, to take possession of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:18 - Arise, go down to meet Ach'av king of Yisra'el, who dwells in Shomron: behold, he is in the vineyard of Navot, where he is gone down to take possession of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20 - Ach'av said to Eliyah, Have you found me, my enemy? He answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21 - Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ach'av every man-child, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Yisra'el:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:24 - Him who dies of Ach'av in the city the dogs shall eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - (But there was none like Ach'av, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, whom Izevel his wife stirred up.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:27 - It happened, when Ach'av heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:29 - See you how Ach'av humbles himself before me? because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:20 - The LORD said, Who shall entice Ach'av, that he may go up and fall at Ramot-Gil`ad? One said on this manner; and another said on that manner.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39 - Now the rest of the acts of Ach'av, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:40 - So Ach'av slept with his fathers; and Achazyah his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:41 - Yehoshafat the son of Asa began to reign over Yehudah in the fourth year of Ach'av king of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:49

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:49 - Then said Achazyah the son of Ach'av to Yehoshafat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Yehoshafat would not.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:51 - Achazyah the son of Ach'av began to reign over Yisra'el in Shomron in the seventeenth year of Yehoshafat king of Yehudah, and he reigned two years over Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1 - Mo'av rebelled against Yisra'el after the death of Ach'av.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:1 - Now Yehoram the son of Ach'av began to reign over Yisra'el in Shomron in the eighteenth year of Yehoshafat king of Yehudah, and reigned twelve years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:5 - But it happened, when Ach'av was dead, that the king of Mo'av rebelled against the king of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:16 - In the fifth year of Yoram the son of Ach'av king of Yisra'el, Yehoshafat being then king of Yehudah, Yehoram the son of Yehoshafat king of Yehudah began to reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:18 - He walked in the way of the kings of Yisra'el, as did the house of Ach'av: for he had the daughter of Ach'av as wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:25 - In the twelfth year of Yoram the son of Ach'av king of Yisra'el did Achazyah the son of Yehoram king of Yehudah begin to reign.

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