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# אַחְבָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H257

**Ahban** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ahban [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/257/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַחְבָּן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/257/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (brother of an intelligent one) son of Abishur, of Judah 1 Ch 2:29.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: Ahban (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.29/#tree)

וְשֵׁ֛ם אֵ֥שֶׁת אֲבִישׁ֖וּר אֲבִיהָ֑יִל וַתֵּ֣לֶד ל֔וֹ אֶת־אַחְבָּ֖ן וְאֶת־מוֹלִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of.the.wife of.Abishur \[was\].Abihail and she.bore to him (et) Ahban and (et) Molid

*JPS 1917:* And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/257.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/257/): 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).