Original Language Studio
1 Kings 16:29
“And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H256 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon
- Derivation
- once (by contraction) אֶחָב (Jeremiah 29:22); from H251 (אָח) and H1 (אָב); brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father;
- KJV renderings
- Ahab.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- אַחְאָ֣ב — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 93 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Kings 16:281 Kings 16:301 Kings 16:331 Kings 16:331 Kings 17:1
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אַחְאָב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.