achav · Ahab

What it means

achav (אַחְאָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ahab”.

A name meaning "father's brother." It is the king of Israel, son of Omri, who married Jezebel and served Baal (1 Kings 16:29–22:40); a false prophet in Babylon also bears the name (Jeremiah 29:21).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×49
• 2 Kings×27
• 2 Chronicles×14
• Jeremiah×2
• Micah×1

• 1 Kings 16:28

  Omri lay down with his fathers and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his place.

• 1 Kings 16:29

  Ahab son of Omri began to reign over Israel in year thirty and eight of Asa king of Judah; and Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

• 1 Kings 16:30

  Ahab son of Omri did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH more than all who were before him.

• 1 Kings 16:33

  Ahab also made the Asherah; and Ahab did still more to provoke to anger YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

• 1 Kings 17:1

  Elijah the Tishbite, of the residents of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As YHWH lives, the Elohim of Israel, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

• 1 Kings 18:1

  And it happened, after many days, that the word of YHWH came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will give rain on the face of the ground.”

• 1 Kings 18:2

  So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.

• 1 Kings 18:3

  Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. Now Obadiah feared YHWH greatly;

• 1 Kings 18:5

  Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the brooks; perhaps we will find grass and keep alive horse and mule, and not have to cut off some of the animals.”

• 1 Kings 18:6

  So they divided the land between them to pass through it; Ahab went by one way by himself, and Obadiah went by another way by himself.

• 1 Kings 18:9

  He said, “What sin have I committed, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to put me to death?

• 1 Kings 18:12

  And it will be, when I go from you, that the spirit of YHWH will carry you to where I do not know; and I will come to tell Ahab, and he will not find you, and he will kill me. Yet I, your servant, have feared YHWH from my youth.

• 1 Kings 18:16

  So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

• 1 Kings 18:17

  And it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, “Is it you, the one who brings ruin on Israel?”

• 1 Kings 18:20

  So Ahab sent word among all the sons of Israel and gathered the prophets at Mount Carmel.

• 1 Kings 18:41

  Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of the roar of rain.”

• 1 Kings 18:42

  So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.

• 1 Kings 18:44

  And it happened at the seventh time that he said, “Look, a small cloud, like the palm of a man, is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Hitch your chariot and go down, so that the rain does not stop you.’”

• 1 Kings 18:45

  And it happened, in the meantime, that the heavens grew dark with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode in his chariot and went to Jezreel.

• 1 Kings 18:46

  The hand of YHWH was on Elijah; and he girded his waist and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

• 1 Kings 19:1

  Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and all how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

• 1 Kings 20:2

  He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city,

• 1 Kings 20:13

  And there, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, “Thus says YHWH: ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Look, I am giving it into your hand today, and you will know that I am YHWH.’”

• 1 Kings 20:14

  Ahab said, “By whom?” He said, “Thus says YHWH: ‘By the young men of the commanders of the provinces.’” And he said, “Who will start the battle?” He said, “You.”

• 1 Kings 21:1

  And it happened after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard that was in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

• 1 Kings 21:2

  Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, so that it may be mine for a garden of vegetables, for it is near, beside my house; and I will give you in its place a vineyard better than it; or, if it is good in your eyes, I will give you silver, the price of it.”

• 1 Kings 21:3

  Naboth said to Ahab, “Far be it from me, by YHWH, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

• 1 Kings 21:4

  Ahab went into his house resentful and angry because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, when he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and did not eat bread.

• 1 Kings 21:8

  She wrote letters in the name of Ahab, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

• 1 Kings 21:15

  And it happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for silver; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:16

  And it happened, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab got up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

• 1 Kings 21:18

  “Get up, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; look, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.

• 1 Kings 21:20

  Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He said, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the eyes of YHWH.

• 1 Kings 21:21

  ‘Look, I am bringing evil on you, and I will sweep away after you, and I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against the wall, restrained and left in Israel;

• 1 Kings 21:24

  Whoever of Ahab’s house dies in the city, the dogs will eat; and whoever dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.’”

• 1 Kings 21:25

  Only there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do what is evil in the eyes of YHWH, because Jezebel his wife incited him.

• 1 Kings 21:27

  And it happened, when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted; and he lay in the sackcloth and went about slowly.

• 1 Kings 21:29

  “Have you seen that Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; in the days of his son I will bring the evil on his house.”

• 1 Kings 22:20

  And YHWH said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, so that he goes up and falls at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this way, and another was saying that way.

• 1 Kings 22:39

  The rest of the deeds of Ahab, and all that he did, and the house of ivory that he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

And 53 more times.