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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

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Strong's Number H256 matches the Hebrew אַחְאָב ('aḥ'āḇ),
which occurs 27 times in 22 verses in '2Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Now Moab revolted against Israel after the death of Ahab H256.

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Now Jehoram the son of Ahab H256 became king over Israel at Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:5 - But it happened that when Ahab H256 died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

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Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab H256 king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah became king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:18 - And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab H256 had done, for the daughter of Ahab H256 became his wife; and he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

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In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab H256 king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah became king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:27 - He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab H256 and did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, like the house of Ahab H256 had done, because he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab H256.

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Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab H256 to war with Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans struck Joram.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had caused by striking him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab H256 in Jezreel because he was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - ‘And you shall strike the house of Ahab H256 your master, that I may avenge the blood of My slaves the prophets, and the blood of all the slaves of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8 - ‘For the whole house of Ahab H256 shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab H256 every [fn]male person both bond and free in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:9 - ‘And I will make the house of Ahab H256 like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Lift him up and cast him into the [fn]property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for I remember when [fn]you and I were riding together after Ahab H256 his father, that Yahweh lifted up this oracle against him:

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Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab H256, Ahaziah became king over Judah.

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Now Ahab H256 had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of the children of Ahab H256, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:10 - “Know then that nothing from the word of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab H256, shall fall to the earth. Indeed, Yahweh has done what He spoke by the hand of His servant Elijah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11 - So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab H256 in Jezreel, and all his great men and his acquaintances and his priests, until [fn]there was no survivor remaining for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17 - And he came to Samaria and struck down all who were left to Ahab H256 in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of Yahweh which He spoke to Elijah.

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Then Jehu gathered all the people and said to them, “Ahab H256 served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30 - And Yahweh said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in doing what is right in My eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab H256 according to all that was in My heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - Indeed, he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an [fn]Asherah, as Ahab H256 king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13 - ‘And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the level of the house of Ahab H256, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish—he wipes it and turns it upside down.
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