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HebrewH0285Proper Noun (Masculine)

אֲחִיטוּב

a.chi.tuv

10Occurrences
H0285Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Achitub, the name of several priests

from H251 (אָח) and H2898 (טוּב); brother of goodness;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at ; son of: Phinehas (H6372H); brother of: Ichabod (H0350); father of: Ahimelech (H0288) § Ahitub = "my brother is good (goodness)" 1) a grandson of ) the father of Zadok the priest

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

אֲחִיטוּב appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
5
1 Chronicles
2
2 Samuel
1
Ezra
1
Nehemiah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 18:16BSB

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests;Shavsha was the scribe;

1 Samuel 14:3BSB

including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 22:11BSB

Then the king sent messengers to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and his father’s whole family, who were priests at Nob. And all of them came to the king.

1 Samuel 22:20BSB

But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.

Ezra 7:2BSB

the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.