# H296 אֲחִיקָם

אֲחִיקָם (ʼĂchîyqâm), Strong’s H296: Achikam, an Israelite KJV: Ahikam.. Occurs 20 times.

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*ʼĂchîyqâm* — Achikam, an Israelite

KJV: Ahikam.

Built from [אָח ʼâch](https://besorah.bible/word/H251) (a brother) + [קוּם qûwm](https://besorah.bible/word/H6965) (to rise) — means “brother of rising (i.e. high)”

Occurs 20 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֲחִיקָם n.pr.m. (my brother has arisen) son of Shaphan, Josiah’s time; protector of Jerem.; father of Gedaliah

## Where it occurs
- [2 Kings 22:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/22?v=12) — The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and…
- [2 Kings 22:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/22?v=14) — So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son…
- [2 Kings 25:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/25?v=22) — As for the people who were left in the land of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he…
- [Jeremiah 26:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/26?v=24) — But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they didn’t give him into the hand of the people…
- [Jeremiah 39:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/39?v=14) — sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of…
- [Jeremiah 40:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/40?v=5) — Now while he had not yet gone back, “Go back then,” he said, “to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom…
- [Jeremiah 40:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/40?v=6) — Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the…
- [Jeremiah 40:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/40?v=7) — Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon…
- [Jeremiah 40:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/40?v=9) — Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, “Don’t be afraid to serve the…
- [Jeremiah 40:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/40?v=11) — Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the…