Person
Ahab
Achav
אַחְאָב
Father’s brother. King of Israel; husband of Jezebel.
Related
Ahab reigns in Samaria and serves Baal under Jezebel’s influence. Elijah confronts him.
Strong’s
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אַחְאָב H256
ʼAchʼâb · akh-awb'
Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.
אָח H251 · H256 · H257
I. אָח, אַחְאָב, אֶחָב, אַחְבָּן etc. see אחה.
אַחְאָב H256
אַחְאָב91 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, BarHebrChron. Ecclesiast. ii. 23 compare LCB1879, 1339. In many cases, however, the meaning of proper names compared with אח is dubious, & perfect consistency, especially in comparison with compounds of אָב, seems impossible; compare remark below אביאל and further WeSkizzen, iii. 1 f, DlPr. cap. vi) — אַחְאָב1Kgs 16:28 +; וּכְאֶחָב Jer 29:22 — 1. son of Omri, king of Isr. 1Kgs 16:28; 1Kgs 16:29; 1Kgs 18:1; 1Kgs 18:2; 1Kgs 18:3; 1Kgs 20:2; 1Kgs 20:13; 1Kgs 20:14 + 41 t. 1 Kings, 27 t. 2 Kings, 14 t. 2 Chronicles; Mic 6:16.
2. false prophet, time of Jeremiah. Jer 29:21; Jer 29:22.
אַחָב see אַחְאָב.