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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;=אחיאבZMG 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 2 / 2 (2Ki 8:27–Mic 6:16)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:27 - He walked in the way of the house of Ahab H256 and did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab H256, because he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab H256.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:28 -

Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab H256 to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans [fn]wounded Joram.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - So King Joram returned to have himself healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had [fn]inflicted on 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - ‘And you shall strike the house of Ahab H256 your master, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8 - ‘For the entire house of Ahab H256 shall perish, and I will eliminate from Ahab H256 every male person both [fn]slave and free in Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:9 - ‘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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the [fn]property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when [fn]you and I were riding together after his father Ahab H256, that the LORD brought this pronouncement against him:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:29 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:1 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:10 - “Know then that nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab H256, shall [fn]fall to the earth, for the LORD has done what He spoke [fn]through His servant Elijah.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11 - So Jehu [fn]killed all who remained of the house of Ahab H256 in Jezreel, and all his great men, his acquaintances, and his priests, until he left him without a survivor.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17 - When he came to Samaria, he [fn]killed all who remained to Ahab H256 in Samaria, until he had eliminated [fn]them, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He spoke to Elijah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:18 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30 - Yet the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in performing what is right in My eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab H256 in accordance with everything that was in My heart, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - For he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an [fn]Asherah, just as Ahab H256 king of Israel had done, and he worshiped all the heavenly [fn]lights and served them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13 - ‘I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab H256, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean just as one wipes a bowl, wiping it and turning it upside down.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:1 -

Now Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor; and he allied himself by marriage to Ahab H256.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:2 - Some years later he went down to visit Ahab H256 at Samaria, and Ahab H256 slaughtered many sheep and oxen for him and the people who were with him. And he incited him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:3 - Ahab H256 king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?” And he said to him, “I am as you are, and my people as your people, and we will be with you in the battle.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:19 - “And the LORD said, ‘Who will [fn]entice Ahab H256 king of Israel to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one spirit said this, while another said that.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:6 - He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab H256 had done, for Ahab’s H256 daughter was his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:13 - but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful as the house of Ahab H256 was unfaithful, and you have also killed your brothers, [fn]your own family, who were better than you,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:3 - He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab H256, for his mother was his counselor to act wickedly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:4 - So he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab H256, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his own destruction.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:5 - He also walked by their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab H256 king of Israel to wage war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. But the Arameans [fn]wounded [fn]Joram.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - So he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds [fn]which they had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And [fn]Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab H256 in Jezreel, because he was sick.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:7 -

Now the destruction of Ahaziah was from God, in that [fn]he went to Joram. For when he arrived, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to eliminate the house of Ahab H256.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:8 - And it came about, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab H256, that he found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers attending to Ahaziah, and killed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:21 -

‘This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says concerning Ahab H256 the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsely in My name: “Behold, I am going to hand them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your eyes.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - “Because of them a curse will be [fn]used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab H256, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,’
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16 -

“The statutes of Omri

And every work of the house of Ahab H256 are maintained,

And you walk by their plans.

Therefore I will give you up for destruction,

And [fn]your inhabitants for [fn]derision,

And you will suffer the taunting of My people.”


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