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HebrewH0041Proper Noun (Masculine)

אֲבִינָדָב

a.vi.na.dav

11Occurrences
H0041Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Abinadab, the name of four Israelites

from H1 (אָב) and H5068 (נָדַב); father of generosity (i.e. liberal);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at ; father of: Eleazar (H0499H), Uzzah (H5798A), Ahio (H0283) § Abinadab = "my father is noble" or "my father is willing" 1) a man of Gibeah who sheltered the ark 2) second son of Jesse, David's older brother 3) a son of Saul, slain with him by the Philistines

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

אֲבִינָדָב appears 11 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
5
1 Samuel
4
2 Samuel
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 10:2BSB

The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

1 Chronicles 2:13BSB

Jesse was the father of Eliab his firstborn; Abinadab was born second, Shimea third,

1 Chronicles 9:39BSB

Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

1 Samuel 17:13BSB

The three older sons of Jesse had followed Saul into battle: The firstborn was Eliab, the second was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.

1 Samuel 7:1BSB

Then the men of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the LORD and took it into Abinadab’s house on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to guard the ark of the LORD.

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