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# אֶבְיָתָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H54

**Abiathar** — used 30 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

Abiathar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/54/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶבְיָתָר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/54/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (the Great One is father (?) so BäRel. 156, cf. Sab. ותר) a priest, son of Ahimelech 1 S 22:20, 21, 22; 23:6, 9; 30:7(×2) 2 S 8:17 (read אב׳ בן־אחמלך so 𝔖 We Dr) + 22 times 2 S 1 K 1 Ch.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: Abiathar (24); of Abiathar (5); \[was\] Abiathar (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 20:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.25/#tree)

וּשְׁוָ֖א סֹפֵ֑ר וְצָד֥וֹק וְאֶבְיָתָ֖ר כֹּהֲנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and Sheva \[was\].secretary and Zadok and Abiathar \[were\].priests

*JPS 1917:* and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

[1 Samuel 22:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.22.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.22.21/#tree)

וַיַּגֵּ֥ד אֶבְיָתָ֖ר לְדָוִ֑ד כִּ֚י הָרַ֣ג שָׁא֔וּל אֵ֖ת כֹּהֲנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.told Abiathar to David (dm).that he.had.killed Saul (et) the.priests of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And Abiathar told David that Saul had slain the LORD'S priests.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/54.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/54/): 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).