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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 27 times in 22 verses in '2Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1 - After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:1 - Joram[fn] son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned twelve years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:5 - But after Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:16 - In the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat began his reign as king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:18 - He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he married a daughter of Ahab. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:25 - In the twelfth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:27 - He followed the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was related by marriage to Ahab’s family.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:28 - Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead. The Arameans wounded Joram;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - so King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramoth[fn] in his battle with Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab, because he had been wounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the LORD’s servants shed by Jezebel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8 - The whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:9

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father when the LORD spoke this prophecy against him:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:29 - (In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king of Judah.)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:1 - Now there were in Samaria seventy sons of the house of Ahab. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria: to the officials of Jezreel,[fn] to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab’s children. He said,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:10 - Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail. The LORD has done what he announced through his servant Elijah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11 - So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his chief men, his close friends and his priests, leaving him no survivor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17 - When Jehu came to Samaria, he killed all who were left there of Ahab’s family; he destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD spoken to Elijah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:18 - Then Jehu brought all the people together and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30 - The LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in accomplishing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab all I had in mind to do, your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13 - I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab. I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
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