Bible Encyclopedias
Ahio

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Search for…

Enter query below:

or

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Prev Entry
Ahinoam

Next Entry
Ahira

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

Additional Links

Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Ahio
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Ahio
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Ahio
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Ahio
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Ahio
Hitchcock Bible Names
• Ahio
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Ahio
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Ahio
People's Bible Dictionary
• Ahio
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Ahio
Encyclopedias
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Ahio
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Ahio
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Ahio
Lexicons
• אַחְיו

a -hı̄´ō ( אחיו , 'aḥyō , variously explained as "his brother," "brotherly," "brother of Yahweh," "my brother is Yah"): Proper names containing a similar form of the name of Yahweh are found on the ostraca recently exhumed at Samaria. The word is always treated as a common noun in the ordinary Greek copies, being rendered either "brother" or "brothers," or "his brother" or "his brothers"; but this is probably to be taken as an instance of the relative inferiority of the Greek text as compared with the Massoretic Text. See OSTRACA .

(1) One of the sons of Beriah, the son of Elpaal, the son of Shaharaim and Hushim, reckoned among the families of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 8:14 ). Beriah and Shema are described as 'ancestral heads' "of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath."

(2) A descendant of Jeiel ("the father of Gibeon") and his wife Maacah (1 Chronicles 8:31; 1 Chronicles 9:37 ). King Saul apparently came from the same family (1 Chronicles 8:30 , 1 Chronicles 8:33; 1 Chronicles 9:39 ).

(3) One of the men who drove the new cart when David first attempted to bring the ark from the house of Abinadab to Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6:3 , 2 Samuel 6:4; 1 Chronicles 13:7 ). In Samuel Uzza and Ahio are called sons of Abinadab. By the most natural understanding of the Biblical data about 100 years had elapsed since the ark was brought to the house; they were sons of that Abinadab in the sense of being his descendants. Whether he had a successor of the same name living in David's time is a matter of conjecture.