H40

אבימלך

אבימלך

ahbayamalak

Proper masculine noun · From אב (H1) and מלך (H4428)

From H1 and H4428; father of (the) king; Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites:—Abimelech.

Outline

Abimelech = "Melek is father" or "my father is king"

king of Gerar in Abraham's time
king of Gath in David's time; maybe title of Philistine kings
son of Gideon by a concubine
priest, son of Abiathar

Usages (2/2)

Judges 9:47

And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

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Judges 9:48

And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

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Judges 9:49

And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

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Judges 9:50

¶ Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

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Judges 9:52

And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

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Judges 9:53

And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.

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Judges 9:55

And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

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Judges 9:56

¶ Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

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Judges 10:1

And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.

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2 Samuel 11:21

Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

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1 Chronicles 18:16

And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

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