Strong's #29: 'Abiyah (pronounced ab-ee-yaw')

or prolonged Abiyahuw {ab-ee-yaw'-hoo}; from 1 and 3050; father (i.e. worshipper) of Jah; Abijah, the name of several Israelite men and two Israelitesses:--Abiah, Abijah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ăbı̂yâh / 'ăbı̂yâhû

Abia or Abiah or Abijah = "Jehovah is (my) father"

1) king of Judah, son and successor of Rehoboam

2) second son of Samuel

3) son of Jeroboam the first, king of Israel

4) son of Becher, a Benjamite

5) head of a priestly house (one of the 24 Levite groups)

6) head of a priestly house (after the exile)

7) wife of Hezron

8) mother of Hezekiah (compare H21)

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H1 and H3050

Usage:

This word is used 25 times:

 

1 Samuel 8:2: "Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba."
1 Kings 14:1: "At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick."
1 Chronicles 2:24: "Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron's bore him"
1 Chronicles 3:10: "And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa Jehoshaphat"
1 Chronicles 6:28: "of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah."
1 Chronicles 7:8: "and Elioenai, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these"
1 Chronicles 24:10: "The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,"
2 Chronicles 11:20: "of Absalom; him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith."
2 Chronicles 11:22: "And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah to be ruler"
2 Chronicles 12:16: "and was buried in the city and Abijah his son reigned in his stead."
2 Chronicles 13:1: "Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign Judah."
2 Chronicles 13:2: "And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam."
2 Chronicles 13:3: " And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men even four"
2 Chronicles 13:4: " And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which"
2 Chronicles 13:15: "and all Israel before Abijah and Judah."
2 Chronicles 13:17: " And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down of Israel"
2 Chronicles 13:19: " And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities him,"
2 Chronicles 13:20: "strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died."
2 Chronicles 13:21: " But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begot"
2 Chronicles 13:22: "And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written of the prophet"
2 Chronicles 14:1: " So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city and Asa"
2 Chronicles 29:1: "in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah."
Nehemiah 10:7: "Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,"
Nehemiah 12:4: "Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,"
Nehemiah 12:17: " Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;"