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Lexicon :: Strong's H256 - 'aḥ'āḇ

Aa
אַחְאָב
Transliteration
'aḥ'āḇ
Pronunciation
akh-awb'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אַחְאָב ʼAchʼâb, akh-awb'; once (by contraction) אֶחָב ʼEchâb (Jeremiah 29:22); from H251 and H1; brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon:—Ahab.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 93x

The KJV translates Strong's H256 in the following manner: Ahab (93x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 93x
The KJV translates Strong's H256 in the following manner: Ahab (93x).

  1. Ahab = "father's brother"

    1. king of Israel, son of Omri, husband of Jezebel

    2. false prophet executed by Nebuchadrezzar, time of Jeremiah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַחְאָב ʼAchʼâb, akh-awb'; once (by contraction) אֶחָב ʼEchâb (Jeremiah 29:22); from H251 and H1; brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon:—Ahab.
STRONGS H256: Abbreviations
אַחְאָב 91 proper name, masculine Ahab (father's brother;＝אחיאב NöZMG 1886, 172, Ἀχίαβος was a nephew of Herod; compare like name in Syriac, given ob maximum cum parte suo similitudinem, Bar Hebræus in EusebiusChronicles ii. 23 compare LCB1879, 1339. In many cases, however, the meaning of proper names compared with H251 אח is dubious, & perfect consistency, especially in comparison with compounds of אָב, seems impossible; compare remark below H22 אביאל and further WeSkizzen, iii. 1 f, DlPr. cap. vi) — אַחְאָב 1 Kings 16:28 +; וּכְאֶחָב Jeremiah 29:22 —
1. son of Omri, king of Israel. 1 Kings 16:28, 29; 1 Kings 18:1, 2, 3; 1 Kings 20:2, 13, 14 + 41 times 1 Kings, + 27 times 2 Kings, + 14 times 2 Chronicles; Micah 6:16.
2. false prophet, time of Jeremiah. Jeremiah 29:21, 22.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Kings

16:28; 16:28; 16:29; 18:1; 18:2; 18:3; 20:2; 20:13; 20:14

Jeremiah

29:21; 29:22; 29:22

Micah

6:16

H256

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H256 matches the Hebrew אַחְאָב ('aḥ'āḇ),
which occurs 93 times in 81 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ki 16:28–2Ki 8:25)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:29 - In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:30 - And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 - And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:1 - Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:2 - So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:3 - And Ahab sent for Obadiah, the controller of the king's house. (Now Obadiah had the fear of the Lord before him greatly;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - And Ahab said to Obadiah, Come, let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers, and see if there is any grass to be had for the horses and the transport beasts, so that we may be able to keep some of the beasts from destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:6 - So they went through all the country, covering it between them; Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another by himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:9 - And he said, What sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:12 - And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:16 - So Obadiah went to Ahab and gave him the news; and Ahab went to see Elijah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:17 - And when he saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:20 - So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and got the prophets together at Mount Carmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:41 - Then Elijah said to Ahab, Up! take food and drink, for there is a sound of much rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:42 - So Ahab went up to have food and drink, while Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he went down on the earth, putting his face between his knees.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - And the seventh time he said, I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then he said, Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:45

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:45 - And after a very little time, the heaven became black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab went in his carriage to Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:46 - And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he made himself strong, and went running before Ahab till they came to Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 - Ahab gave Jezebel news of all Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to death with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:2 - And he sent representatives into the town to Ahab, king of Israel;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:13 - Then a prophet came up to Ahab, king of Israel, and said, The Lord says, Have you seen all this great army? See, I will give it into your hands today, and you will see that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:14 - And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, The Lord says, By the servants of the chiefs who are over the divisions of the land. Then he said, By whom is the fighting to be started? And he made answer, By you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:1 - Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:3 - But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:4 - So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:8 - So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 - Then Jezebel, hearing that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, said to Ahab, Get up and take as your heritage the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he would not give you for money, for Naboth is no longer living but is dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:16 - So Ahab, hearing that Naboth was dead, went down to the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite to take it as his heritage.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:18 - Go down to Ahab, king of Israel, in Samaria; see, he is in the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, where he has gone to take it as his heritage.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20 - And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21 - See, I will send evil on you and put an end to you completely, cutting off from Ahab every male child, him who is shut up and him who goes free in Israel;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:24 - Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - (There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:27 - Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:29 - Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:20 - And the Lord said, How may Ahab be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all he did, and his ivory house, and all the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:40 - So Ahab was put to rest with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:41 - And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab's rule over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:49

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:49 - Then Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, said to Jehoshaphat, Let my men go with yours in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not let them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:51 - Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and he was king over Israel for two years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1 - After the death of Ahab, Moab made itself free from the authority of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:1 - And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:5 - But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:16 - In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:18 - He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:25 - In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;

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