Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H256
אַחְאָב
Achabakh-awb'
Ahab
92 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼAchʼâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H256is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 25spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H256
Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon
The King James renders it: Ahab.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Achab is rendered "Ahab". It stands 92 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Forty-eight of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 16:28And Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab reigned in his place.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.
The first use
And Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab reigned in his place.
1 Kings 16:28אַחְאָ֥ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Forty-eight of the word's ninety-two uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Ahab80
- to Ahab5
- of Ahab3
- and Ahab1
- and like Ahab1
- and to Ahab1
- like Ahab1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 92, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
25 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אַחְאָ֖ב15
- אַחְאָ֔ב13
- אַחְאָ֑ב13
- אַחְאָב֙11
- אַחְאָ֜ב5
- אַחְאָ֣ב5
- אַחְאָ֗ב5
- לְאַחְאָב֙3
- אַחְאָ֥ב2
- אַחְאָ֨ב2
- אַחְאָ֛ב2
- אַחְאָֽב׃2
and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)80HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)9HR/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)2HC/R/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
1 Kings
forty-eight uses
And Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab reigned in his place.
- אַחְאָ֥בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty-two years.
- וְאַחְאָ֣בveachavconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Ahab
- אַחְאָ֨בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.
- אַחְאָ֧בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
- אַחְאָ֜בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
- אַחְאָב֒ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
and Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. (Now Obadiah greatly feared the LORD,
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
- אַחְאָב֙ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
So they divided the land to explore. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went the other way by himself.
- אַחְאָ֞בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
But Obadiah replied, “How have I sinned, that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to put me to death?
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.
- לְאַחְאָ֛בleachavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Ahab
So Obadiah went to inform Ahab, who went to meet Elijah.
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, O troubler of Israel?”
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
- אַחְאָב֙ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
So Ahab summoned all the Israelites and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel.
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”
- לְאַחְאָ֔בleachavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Ahab
So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees.
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
- אַחְאָב֙ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
- אַחְאָב֙ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Meanwhile a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Do you see this entire great army? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this very day, and you will know that I am the LORD.’”
- אַחְאָ֣בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
“By whom?” Ahab asked. And the prophet replied, “This is what the LORD says: ‘By the young officers of the district governors.’” “Who will start the battle?” asked Ahab. “You will,” answered the prophet.
- אַחְאָב֙ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Some time later, Naboth the Jezreelite happened to own a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”
- אַחְאָ֣בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
But Naboth replied, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.
- אַחְאָ֨בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, “Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, who refused to give it to you for silver. For Naboth is no longer alive, but dead.”
- אַחְאָ֗בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
- אַחְאָ֗בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
“Get up and go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria. See, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, of which he has gone to take possession.
- אַחְאָ֥בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
- אַחְאָב֙ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.
- לְאַחְאָב֙leachavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Ahab
Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”
- לְאַחְאָב֙leachavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Ahab
(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.
- כְאַחְאָ֔בkheachavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Ahab
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.
- אַחְאָ֜בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this, and another that.
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
As for the rest of the acts of Ahab, along with all his accomplishments and the ivory palace and all the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
- אַחְאָ֜בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And Ahab rested with his fathers, and his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
In the fourth year of Ahab’s reign over Israel, Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king of Judah.
- לְאַחְאָ֖בleachavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Ahab
At that time Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants sail with your servants,” but Jehoshaphat refused.
- אַחְאָב֙ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
In the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria two years.
- אַחְאָ֗בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
2 Kings
twenty-seven uses
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.
- אַחְאָֽב׃ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Jehoram son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twelve years.
- אַחְאָ֗בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
But after the death of Ahab, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.
- אַחְאָב֙ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Then Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.
- אַחְאָ֗בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
- אַחְאָ֛בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
- לְאַחְאָב֙leachavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Ahab
I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:
- אַחְאָ֣בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
(In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.)
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:
- וּלְאַחְאָ֛בuleachavconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Ahab
- אַחְאָ֖בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and priests, leaving him without a single survivor.
- אַחְאָב֙ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
When Jehu came to Samaria, he struck down everyone belonging to Ahab who remained there, until he had destroyed them, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to Elijah.
- לְאַחְאָ֛בleachavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Ahab
Then Jehu brought all the people together and said, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot.
- אַחְאָ֕בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
- אַחְאָב֙ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
2 Chronicles
fourteen uses
Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.
- לְאַחְאָֽב׃leachavpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Ahab
And some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him, and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.
- אַחְאָב֙ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
- אַחְאָ֜בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat replied, “I am like you, and my people are your people; we will join you in the war.”
- אַחְאָ֣בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this, and another that.
- אַחְאָ֣בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for to his destruction they were his counselors after the death of his father.
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Ahaziah also followed their counsel and went with Joram son of Ahab king of Israel to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. But the Arameans wounded Joram;
- אַחְאָ֜בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
- אַחְאָ֛בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Ahaziah’s downfall came from God when he went to visit Joram. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
- אַחְאָֽב׃ʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
So while Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the rulers of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who were serving Ahaziah, and he killed them.
- אַחְאָ֑בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Jeremiah
two uses
This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.
- אַחְאָ֤בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
- וּכְאֶחָ֔בukheechavconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and like Ahab
Micah
one use
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
- אַחְאָ֔בʾachavproper noun (a name)tagged: Ahab
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