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Lexicon :: Strong's H74 - 'aḇnēr

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אַבְנֵר
Transliteration
'aḇnēr
Pronunciation
ab-nare'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אַבְנֵר ʼAbnêr, ab-nare'; or (fully) אֲבִינֵר ʼĂbîynêr ; from H1 and H5216; father of light (i.e. enlightening); Abner, an Israelite:—Abner.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 63x

The KJV translates Strong's H74 in the following manner: Abner (63x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 63x
The KJV translates Strong's H74 in the following manner: Abner (63x).

  1. Abner = "my father is a lamp"

    1. Saul's cousin and army captain, treacherously slain by Joab

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַבְנֵר ʼAbnêr, ab-nare'; or (fully) אֲבִינֵר ʼĂbîynêr ; from H1 and H5216; father of light (i.e. enlightening); Abner, an Israelite:—Abner.
STRONGS H74: Abbreviations
אֲבִינֵר proper name, masculine (my father is Nêr, or is a lamp compare 2 Samuel 21:17; accusative to LagBN 75 = אֲבֶן (= בֶּן) + נֵר = son of Ner; compare Greek Version of the LXX Ἀβεννηρ) — so only 1 Samuel 14:50, elsewhere אַבְנֵר — cousin of Saul, and captain of his host 1 Samuel 14:50, 51; 1 Samuel 17:55 (3 times in verse) + 52 times 1 & 2 Samuel; + 1 Kings 2:5, 32; 1 Chronicles 26:28; 1 Chronicles 27:21.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

14:50; 14:50; 14:51; 17:55

2 Samuel

21:17

1 Kings

2:5; 2:32

1 Chronicles

26:28; 27:21

H74

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H74 matches the Hebrew אַבְנֵר ('aḇnēr),
which occurs 63 times in 53 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Sa 14:50–1Ki 2:5)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:50

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:50 - His wife’s name was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the commander of Saul’s army was Abner son of Ner, and Ner was Saul’s uncle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:51 - Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:55

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:55 - As Saul watched David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is that young man?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, Your Majesty, I don’t know.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:57

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:57 - As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with David still holding the Philistine’s head.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:25 - He sat in his customary place by the wall, opposite Jonathan,[fn] and Abner sat next to Saul, but David’s place was empty.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:5 - Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of the army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the camp, with the army encamped around him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:7 - So David and Abishai went to the army by night, and there was Saul, lying asleep inside the camp with his spear stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the soldiers were lying around him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:14 - He called out to the army and to Abner son of Ner, “Aren’t you going to answer me, Abner?” Abner replied, “Who are you who calls to the king?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:15 - David said, “You’re a man, aren’t you? And who is like you in Israel? Why didn’t you guard your lord the king? Someone came to destroy your lord the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:8 - Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, had taken Ish-Bosheth son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:12 - Abner son of Ner, together with the men of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, left Mahanaim and went to Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14 - Then Abner said to Joab, “Let’s have some of the young men get up and fight hand to hand in front of us.” “All right, let them do it,” Joab said.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:17 - The battle that day was very fierce, and Abner and the Israelites were defeated by David’s men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:19 - He chased Abner, turning neither to the right nor to the left as he pursued him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:20 - Abner looked behind him and asked, “Is that you, Asahel?” “It is,” he answered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - Then Abner said to him, “Turn aside to the right or to the left; take on one of the young men and strip him of his weapons.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:22 - Again Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me! Why should I strike you down? How could I look your brother Joab in the face?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:23 - But Asahel refused to give up the pursuit; so Abner thrust the butt of his spear into Asahel’s stomach, and the spear came out through his back. He fell there and died on the spot. And every man stopped when he came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:24 - But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner, and as the sun was setting, they came to the hill of Ammah, near Giah on the way to the wasteland of Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:25 - Then the men of Benjamin rallied behind Abner. They formed themselves into a group and took their stand on top of a hill.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will end in bitterness? How long before you order your men to stop pursuing their fellow Israelites?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:29 - All that night Abner and his men marched through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, continued through the morning hours[fn] and came to Mahanaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:30 - Then Joab stopped pursuing Abner and assembled the whole army. Besides Asahel, nineteen of David’s men were found missing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:31 - But David’s men had killed three hundred and sixty Benjamites who were with Abner.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:6 - During the war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner had been strengthening his own position in the house of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:7 - Now Saul had had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. And Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - Abner was very angry because of what Ish-Bosheth said. So he answered, “Am I a dog’s head—on Judah’s side? This very day I am loyal to the house of your father Saul and to his family and friends. I haven’t handed you over to David. Yet now you accuse me of an offense involving this woman!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:9 - May God deal with Abner, be it ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD promised him on oath

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:11 - Ish-Bosheth did not dare to say another word to Abner, because he was afraid of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:12 - Then Abner sent messengers on his behalf to say to David, “Whose land is it? Make an agreement with me, and I will help you bring all Israel over to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:16 - Her husband, however, went with her, weeping behind her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back home!” So he went back.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:17 - Abner conferred with the elders of Israel and said, “For some time you have wanted to make David your king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:19 - Abner also spoke to the Benjamites in person. Then he went to Hebron to tell David everything that Israel and the whole tribe of Benjamin wanted to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:20 - When Abner, who had twenty men with him, came to David at Hebron, David prepared a feast for him and his men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:21 - Then Abner said to David, “Let me go at once and assemble all Israel for my lord the king, so that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may rule over all that your heart desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:22 - Just then David’s men and Joab returned from a raid and brought with them a great deal of plunder. But Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, because David had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:23 - When Joab and all the soldiers with him arrived, he was told that Abner son of Ner had come to the king and that the king had sent him away and that he had gone in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:24 - So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you let him go? Now he is gone!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:25 - You know Abner son of Ner; he came to deceive you and observe your movements and find out everything you are doing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - Joab then left David and sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern at Sirah. But David did not know it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27 - Now when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into an inner chamber, as if to speak with him privately. And there, to avenge the blood of his brother Asahel, Joab stabbed him in the stomach, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:28 - Later, when David heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:30 - (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31 - Then David said to Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and walk in mourning in front of Abner.” King David himself walked behind the bier.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:32 - They buried Abner in Hebron, and the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb. All the people wept also.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:33 - The king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner have died as the lawless die?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:37 - So on that day all the people there and all Israel knew that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:1 - When Ish-Bosheth son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he lost courage, and all Israel became alarmed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - So David gave an order to his men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb at Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:5 - “Now you yourself know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He killed them, shedding their blood in peacetime as if in battle, and with that blood he stained the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.

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