# H38 אֲבִיָּם

אֲבִיָּם (ʼĂbîyâm), Strong’s H38: Abijam (or Abijah), a king of Judah KJV: Abijam.. Occurs 5 times.

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*ʼĂbîyâm* — Abijam (or Abijah), a king of Judah

KJV: Abijam.

Built from [אָב ʼâb](https://besorah.bible/word/H1) (father) + [יָם yâm](https://besorah.bible/word/H3220) (a sea) — means “father of (the) sea (i.e. seaman)”

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֲבִיָּ֫הוּ n.pr.m. & f. (Yah(u) is (my) father)—so † 2 Ch 13:20, 21 = אֲבִיָּם † 1 K 14:31 15:1, 7, 7, 8 (𝔊,); = אֲבִי † 2 K 18:2 (𝔊,); = אֲבִיָּה 1 S 8:2 22 t.—
- 1 king of Judah, son & successor of Rehoboam
- 2 2nd son of Samuel
- 3 son of Jerob.
- 4 son of Becher, a Benjamite
- 5 head of a priestly house
- 6 id.
- 7 wife of Hezron
- 8 mother of Hezekiah

## Where it occurs
- [1 Kings 14:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/14?v=31) — Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the…
- [1 Kings 15:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/15?v=1) — Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.
- [1 Kings 15:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/15?v=7) — The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of…
- [1 Kings 15:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/15?v=8) — Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place.