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Strong's #29 - אֲבִיָּהוּ
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- Abia or Abiah or Abijah = "Jehovah is (my) father"
- king of Judah, son and successor of Rehoboam
- second son of Samuel
- son of Jeroboam the first, king of Israel
- son of Becher, a Benjamite
- head of a priestly house (one of the 24 Levite groups)
- head of a priestly house (after the exile)
- wife of Hezron
- mother of Hezekiah (cf Strong's #21)
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1 king of Judah, son & successor of Rehoboam 1 Kings 14:31; 1 Kings 15:1,7 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 15:8; 1 Chronicles 3:10; 2 Chronicles 11:20,22; 12:16; 13:1,2,3,4,15,17,19,20,21,22; 2 Chronicles 13:23.
2 2nd son of Samuel 1 Samuel 8:2; 1 Chronicles 6:13.
3 son of Jerob. I: 1 Kings 14:1.
4 son of Becher, a Benjamite 1 Chronicles 7:8.
5 head of a priestly house 1 Chronicles 24:10.
6 id. Nehemiah 10:8; Nehemiah 12:4,17.
7 wife of Hezron 1 Chronicles 2:24.
8 mother of Hezekiah 2 Kings 18:2; 2 Chronicles 29:1.
אֲבִיָּהוּ (“whose father is Jehovah”) and אֲבִיָּה (id.), pr.n. Abijah, king of Judah, the son and successor of Rehoboam, 2 Ch, 13:1, sqq. constantly written אֲבִיָּם in Kings: 1 Kings 14:31, 15:1, 1 Kings 15:7, 1 Kings 15:8, “father of the sea,” i.e. maritime man.