ʼOhŏlîybâh — H172

Definition

feminine proper noun

Oholibah, a symbolic name for Judah

1. Aholibah = "woman of the tent" or "the tent is in her"
2. (metaph) Jerusalem as adulterous wife of Jehovah

Usually translated as

Aholibah

Origin

(similarly with H170) for ʼOhŏlîybâhh ; from H168; my tent (is) in her

• Derived from ʼOhŏlâh (H170)
• Derived from ʼôhel (H168)

Occurrences

ʼOhŏlîybâh occurs 6 times in 5 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ezekiel (5)

• Ezekiel 23:4 — And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah (וְאָהֳלִיבָ֣ה) her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
• Ezekiel 23:4 — And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah (אָהֳלִיבָֽה).
• Ezekiel 23:11 — And when her sister Aholibah (אָהֳלִיבָ֔ה) saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
• Ezekiel 23:22 — Therefore, O Aholibah (אָהֳלִיבָ֗ה), thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
• Ezekiel 23:36 — The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah (אָהֳלִיבָ֑ה)? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
• Ezekiel 23:44 — Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah (אָ֣הֳלִיבָ֔ה), the lewd women.