Abi: meaning of the name

Abi in Hebrew and Greek

Abi in Scripture

“Abi” appears in 8 verses of the King James Version.

• Judges 6:11

  And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

• Judges 6:24

  Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it Jehovah–shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi–ezrites.

• Judges 6:34

  But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi–ezer was gathered after him.

• Judges 8:2

  And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi–ezer?

• Judges 8:32

  And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi–ezrites.

• 2 Samuel 23:31

  Abi–albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,

• 2 Kings 18:2

  Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

• 1 Chronicles 11:28

  Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi–ezer the Antothite,