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# אֲחִיָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H281

**Ahiah** — used 19 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

Ahiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/281/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲחִיָּ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/281/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** † אֲחִיָּ֫הוּ, אֲחִיָּה (always, except where other form noted), אֲחִי n.pr.m. (brother of Yah(u), cf. Ph. חמלך brother of Milk, & especially אחתמלך sister of Milk, where אחת must be cstr. since מלך is a male deity; cf. Carth. חתמלקרת Euting 213). a priest 1 S 14:3, 18. a scribe 1 K 4:3. a prophet 1 K 11:29, 30; 12:15; 14:2, 4; 15:29 2 Ch 9:29; 1 K 14:4, 5, 6, 18 2 Ch 10:15 (last five אֲחִיָּהוּ). father of king Baasha 1 K 15:27, 33; 21:22 2 K 9:9. grandson of Hezron 1 Ch 2:25, or perhaps n.pr.f., mother of preceding four, cf. Be. son of Ehud, of Benj. 1 Ch 8:7 = אֲחוֹחַ v 4. one of Dvd’s heroes 1 Ch 11:36. a Levite, Dvd’s time 1 Ch 26:20. a chief man under Nehem. Ne 10:27. a Gadite 1 Ch 5:15 (אֲחִי). a man of Asher 1 Ch 7:34 (id.)

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ahijah (11); of Ahijah (7); Ahiah (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.27/#tree)

וַאֲחִיָּ֥ה חָנָ֖ן עָנָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Ahiah Hanan Anan

*JPS 1917:* and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan;

[1 Chronicles 11:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.36/#tree)

חֵ֚פֶר הַמְּכֵ֣רָתִ֔י אֲחִיָּ֖ה הַפְּלֹנִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Hepher the Mekerathite Ahijah the Pelonite

*JPS 1917:* Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/281.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/281/): 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).