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Strong's #256: 'Ach'ab (pronounced akh-awb')

once (by contraction) oEchab (Jer. 29:22) {ekh- awb'}; from 251 and 1; brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon:--Ahab.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ach'âb / 'echâb

Ahab = "father' s brother" once (by contraction) ' Echab (Jeremiah 29:22)

1) king of Israel, son of Omri, husband of Jezebel

2) false prophet executed by Nebuchadrezzar, time of Jeremiah

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine



Usage:

This word is used 93 times:

2 Kings 3:1: "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel the eighteenth"
2 Kings 3:5: "But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled of Israel."
2 Kings 8:16: "year of Joram the son of Ahab king Jehoshaphat being then king"
2 Kings 8:18: "as did of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was"
2 Kings 8:18: "of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil"
2 Kings 8:25: "In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king did Ahaziah"
2 Kings 8:27: "And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil of the LORD,"
2 Kings 8:27: "of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son-in-law of the house"
2 Kings 8:27: "he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab."
2 Kings 8:28: "with Joram the son of Ahab to the war Hazael king"
2 Kings 8:29: "Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick."
2 Kings 9:7: "And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge of my servants"
2 Kings 9:8: "For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab against the wall,"
2 Kings 9:8: "of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab against the wall, and him that is shut up and left"
2 Kings 9:9: "And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam of Nebat,"
2 Kings 9:25: "rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid"
2 Kings 9:29: "And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah over"
2 Kings 10:1: " And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote and sent"
2 Kings 10:1: "to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,"
2 Kings 10:10: "the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done"
2 Kings 10:11: "all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolk,"
2 Kings 10:17: "all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying"
2 Kings 10:18: "the people together, and said them, Ahab served Baal a little;"
2 Kings 10:30: "that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart,"
2 Kings 21:3: "a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshiped all"
2 Kings 21:13: "of Samaria, of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as"
2 Chronicles 18:1: "and honor in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab."
2 Chronicles 18:2: "certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. killed sheep"
2 Chronicles 18:2: "to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance,"
2 Chronicles 18:3: " And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat of Judah,"
2 Chronicles 18:19: "Who shall entice Ahab of Israel, that he may go up and fall"
2 Chronicles 21:6: "like as did of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab"
2 Chronicles 21:6: "for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes"
2 Chronicles 21:13: "to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren"
2 Chronicles 22:3: "walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: his mother was his counselor"
2 Chronicles 22:4: "in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: they were his counselors"
2 Chronicles 22:5: "with Jehoram of Ahab king of Israel to war against"
2 Chronicles 22:6: "Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick."
2 Chronicles 22:7: "had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab."
2 Chronicles 22:8: "was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, the princes of Judah,"
Jeremiah 29:21: "the God of Israel, Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah"
Jeremiah 29:22: "The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted"
Micah 6:16: "and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make"









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