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# אֲבִיָּהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Abiah** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Abiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d1_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִיָּ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d1_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. & f. (Yah(u) is (my) father)—so †2 Ch 13:20, 21 = אֲבִיָּם †1 K 14:31; 15:1, 7(×2), 8 (𝔊 Ἀβιου, Ἀβια); = אֲבִי †2 K 18:2 (𝔊 Ἀβου, Ἀβουθ); = אֲבִיָּה 1 S 8:2 + 22 times— king of Judah, son & successor of Rehoboam 1 K 14:31; 15:1, 7(×2), 8 1 Ch 3:10 2 Ch 11:20, 22; 12:16; 13:1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. 2nd son of Samuel 1 S 8:2 1 Ch 6:13. son of Jerob. I 1 K 14:1. son of Becher, a Benjamite 1 Ch 7:8. head of a priestly house 1 Ch 24:10. id. Ne 10:8; 12:4, 17. wife of Hezron 1 Ch 2:24. mother of Hezekiah 2 K 18:2 2 Ch 29:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abijah (1); of Abijah (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 13:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.20/#tree)

וְלֹֽא־עָצַ֧ר כֹּֽחַ־יָרָבְעָ֛ם ע֖וֹד בִּימֵ֣י אֲבִיָּ֑הוּ וַיִּגְּפֵ֥הוּ יְהוָ֖ה וַיָּמֹֽת׃פ

*Word for word:* and not he.retained the.strength of.Jeroboam again in the.days of.Abijah and he struck.him Yahweh and he.died

*JPS 1917:* Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah; and the LORD smote him, and he died.

[2 Chronicles 13:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.13.21/#tree)

וַיִּתְחַזֵּ֣ק אֲבִיָּ֔הוּ וַיִּ֨שָּׂא־ל֔וֹ נָשִׁ֖ים אַרְבַּ֣ע עֶשְׂרֵ֑ה וַיּ֗וֹלֶד עֶשְׂרִ֤ים וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙ בָּנִ֔ים וְשֵׁ֥שׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה בָּנֽוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.strengthened.himself Abijah and he.took for himself wives four- teen and he.fathered twenty and two sons and six- teen daughters

*JPS 1917:* But Abijah waxed mighty, and took unto himself fourteen wives, and begot twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d1_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d1_5b4_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).