ʼAchʼâb — H256

H256 · Hebrew — אחאב

Pronunciation: akh-awb'

Definition

masculine proper noun

Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon

  1. Ahab = "father's brother"
  2. king of Israel, son of Omri, husband of Jezebel
  3. false prophet executed by Nebuchadrezzar, time of Jeremiah

Usually translated as

Ahab

Origin

once (by contraction) ʼEchâb (Jeremiah 29:22); from H251 and H1; brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father

Occurrences

ʼAchʼâb occurs 93 times in 81 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Kings (44), 2 Kings (22), 2 Chronicles (12), Jeremiah (2), Micah (1)

Strong's Lexicon — A