אֲבִיָּם

a.viy.yam

Abijam

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Strong’s H38Proper name, a person5 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

1 Kings5

Translated as

abijam5

In the text

1 Kings 14:31אֲבִיָּם
And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אֲבִיָּ֫הוּ n.pr.m. & f. (Yah(u) is (my) father)—so † 2 Ch 13:20, 21 = אֲבִיָּם † 1 K 14:31 15:1, 7, 7, 8 (𝔊 Ἀβιου, Ἀβια); = אֲבִי † 2 K 18:2 (𝔊 Ἀβου, Ἀβουθ); = אֲבִיָּה 1 S 8:2 22 t.—

1. king of Judah, son & successor of Rehoboam

2. 2nd son of Samuel

3. son of Jerob.

4. son of Becher, a Benjamite

5. head of a priestly house

6. id.

7. wife of Hezron

8. mother of Hezekiah

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.