ʼĂbîy hâ-ʻEzrîy — H33

Definition

masculine proper noun

an Abiezrite or descendant of Abiezer

1. Abiezrite = "my father is help"
2. one of the family of Abiezer, a descendant of Joseph's son, Manasseh

Usually translated as

Abiezrite

Origin

from H44 with the article inserted; father of the Ezrite

• Derived from ʼĂbîyʻezer (H44)

Occurrences

ʼĂbîy hâ-ʻEzrîy occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (3)

• Judges 6:11 — And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite (אֲבִ֣י): and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
• Judges 6:24 — Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites (אֲבִ֥י).
• Judges 8:32 — And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites (אֲבִ֥י).