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# אֲבִיָּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H38

**Abijam** — used 5 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

Abijam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/38/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. אֲבִיָּהוּ sub II. אבה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abijam (4); of Abijam (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 15:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.1/#tree)

וּבִשְׁנַת֙ שְׁמֹנֶ֣ה עֶשְׂרֵ֔ה לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ יָרָבְעָ֣ם בֶּן־נְבָ֑ט מָלַ֥ךְ אֲבִיָּ֖ם עַל־יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and in year eight- teen of the king Jeroboam the.son of.Nebat he.became.king Abijam over Judah

*JPS 1917:* Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.

[1 Kings 15:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.8/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤ב אֲבִיָּם֙ עִם־אֲבֹתָ֔יו וַיִּקְבְּר֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ בְּעִ֣יר דָּוִ֑ד וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ אָסָ֥א בְנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.lay.down Abijam with ancestors his and people.buried him in the.city of.David and he.became.king Asa son his in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/38.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/38/): 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).