achiya · Ahijah

What it means

achiya (אֲחִיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ahijah”.

The name of several people; among them the priest who carried the ephod in Saul's time (1 Samuel 14:3) and the prophet from Shiloh (1 Kings 11:29). It means "brother of YHWH."

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 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×14
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×4
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×1

• 1 Samuel 14:3

  And Ahijah son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, priest of YHWH at Shiloh, was carrying the ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

• 1 Samuel 14:18

  Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring near the ark of Elohim.” For the ark of Elohim was on that day with the sons of Israel.

• 1 Kings 4:3

  Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud, the chronicler;

• 1 Kings 11:29

  And it happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out from Jerusalem, that Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, found him on the road; and he had covered himself with a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the field.

• 1 Kings 11:30

  And Ahijah grabbed the new cloak that was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.

• 1 Kings 12:15

  So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of events from YHWH, so that he might confirm his word that YHWH had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

• 1 Kings 14:2

  Jeroboam said to his wife, “Get up, please, and disguise yourself, so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Look, there is Ahijah the prophet; he spoke about me that I would be king over this people.

• 1 Kings 14:4

  Jeroboam’s wife did so: she got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes had become fixed because of his old age.

• 1 Kings 14:5

  But YHWH had said to Ahijah, “Look, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from you about her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall speak to her. And it will be, when she comes in, that she will be pretending to be another woman.”

• 1 Kings 14:6

  And it happened, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the doorway, that he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you pretending to be another woman? And I am sent to you with a hard word.

• 1 Kings 14:18

  They buried him, and all Israel lamented for him, according to the word of YHWH that he spoke through his servant Ahijah the prophet.

• 1 Kings 15:27

  Baasha son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

• 1 Kings 15:29

  And it happened, as soon as he reigned, that he struck down all the house of Jeroboam; he did not leave to Jeroboam any breathing thing until he had destroyed it, according to the word of YHWH that he spoke through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite,

• 1 Kings 15:33

  In year three of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, and he reigned twenty and four years.

• 1 Kings 21:22

  and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger and made Israel sin.’

• 2 Kings 9:9

  I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah.

• 1 Chronicles 2:25

  And the sons of Jerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron, were: Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, Ahijah.

• 1 Chronicles 8:7

  Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera; he carried them into exile, and he fathered Uzzah and Ahihud.

• 1 Chronicles 11:36

  Hepher the Mecherathite; Ahijah the Pelonite;

• 1 Chronicles 26:20

  Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasuries of the house of Elohim and over the treasuries of the holy things.

• 2 Chronicles 9:29

  The rest of the deeds of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Jedo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

• 2 Chronicles 10:15

  So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of events from Elohim, so that YHWH might confirm his word that he had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

• Nehemiah 10:26

  and Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,

And 1 more times.