H38

אבים

אבים

ahbayam

Proper masculine noun · From אב (H1) and ים (H3220)

From H1 and H3220; father of (the) sea (i.e. seaman); Abijam (or Abijah), a king of Judah:—Abijam.

Outline

Abijam = "my father is the sea" or "Yah(u) is (my) father"

king of Judah, son and successor of Rehoboam

Usages

1 Kings 14:31

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

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1 Kings 15:1

Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

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1 Kings 15:7

Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

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1 Kings 15:8

And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

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