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# אֲחִיקָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H296

**Ahikam** — used 20 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

Ahikam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/296/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲחִיקָם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/296/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my brother has arisen) son of Shaphan, Josiah’s time 2 K 22:12, 14 2 Ch 34:20; protector of Jerem. Je 26:24; father of Gedaliah 2 K 25:22 Je 39:14; 40:5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16; 41:1, 2, 6, 10, 16, 18; 43:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 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: of Ahikam (17); Ahikam (3).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 26:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.26.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.26.24/#tree)

אַ֗ךְ יַ֚ד אֲחִיקָ֣ם בֶּן־שָׁפָ֔ן הָיְתָ֖ה אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֑הוּ לְבִלְתִּ֛י תֵּת־אֹת֥וֹ בְיַד־הָעָ֖ם לַהֲמִיתֽוֹ׃פ

*Word for word:* nevertheless the.hand of.Ahikam the.son of.Shaphan it.was with Jeremiah to not to.give him in the.hand of the.people to put him.to.death

*JPS 1917:* Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

[Jeremiah 40:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.40.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.40.16/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר גְּדַלְיָ֤הוּ בֶן־אֲחִיקָם֙ אֶל־יוֹחָנָ֣ן בֶּן־קָרֵ֔חַ אַֽל־תַּעֲשֵׂ֖ה אֶת־הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֑ה כִּֽי־שֶׁ֛קֶר אַתָּ֥ה דֹבֵ֖ר אֶל־יִשְׁמָעֵֽאל׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.said Gedaliah the.son of.Ahikam to Johanan the.son of.Kareah do.not do (et) the thing (the) this (dm) falsehood you \[are\].speaking concerning Ishmael

*JPS 1917:* But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah: 'Thou shalt not do this thing; for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/296/): 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).