# H256 אַחְאָב

אַחְאָב (ʼAchʼâb), Strong’s H256: Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon KJV: Ahab.. Occurs 93 times.

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*ʼAchʼâb* — Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon

KJV: Ahab.

Built from [אָח ʼâch](https://besorah.bible/word/H251) (a brother) + [אָב ʼâb](https://besorah.bible/word/H1) (father) — means “brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father”

Occurs 93 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אַחְאָב 91 n.pr.m. Ahab (father’s brother)
- 1 son of Omri, king of Isr.
- 2 false prophet, time of Jerem.

## Where it occurs
- [1 Kings 16:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/16?v=28) — So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his place.
- [1 Kings 16:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/16?v=29) — In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri…
- [1 Kings 16:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/16?v=30) — Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight above all that were before him.
- [1 Kings 16:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/16?v=33) — Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of…
- [1 Kings 17:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/17?v=1) — Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives…
- [1 Kings 18:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=1) — After many days, the LORD’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send…
- [1 Kings 18:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=2) — Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
- [1 Kings 18:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=3) — Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly;
- [1 Kings 18:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=5) — Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find…
- [1 Kings 18:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=6) — So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way…