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# אֲחִיטוּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H285

**Ahitub** — used 15 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

Ahitub [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/285/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲחִיטוּב: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/285/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my brother is goodness) grandson of Eli 1 S 14:3 1 Ch 5:33, 34, 37, 38; father of Ahimelech 1 S 22:9, 20 (אֲחִטוּב) v 11, 12 (on identity of pers. v. Be 1 Ch 5:33). father of Zadok 2 S 8:17 (= 1 Ch 18:16), but We rds. Ahim. son of Ahitub; 1 Ch 5:38 Ezr 7:2; grandfather of Zadok 1 Ch 9:11 Ne 11:11 (on all cf. We l.c.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: of Ahitub (10); Ahitub (5).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.2/#tree)

בֶּן־שַׁלּ֥וּם בֶּן־צָד֖וֹק בֶּן־אֲחִיטֽוּב׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Shallum the.son of.Zadok the.son of.Ahitub

*JPS 1917:* the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

[1 Chronicles 5:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.33/#tree)

מְרָיוֹת֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־אֲמַרְיָ֔ה וַאֲמַרְיָ֖ה הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־אֲחִיטֽוּב׃

*Word for word:* Meraioth he.fathered (et) Amariah and Amariah he.fathered (et) Ahitub

*JPS 1917:* Meraioth begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/285.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/285/): 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).