Bible Names

Abiah: meaning of the name

Abiah means “the Lord is my father.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Abiah in Hebrew and Greek

אֲבִיָּה H29

ʼĂbîyâh (ab-ee-yaw') — Abijah, the name of several Israelite men and two Israelitesses

or prolonged אֲבִיָּהוּ ; from H1 (אָב) and H3050 (יָהּ); father (i.e. worshipper) of Jah;

People named Abiah in the Bible

Abiah in Scripture

“Abiah” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Samuel 8:2

    Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer–sheba.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:24

    And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb–ephratah, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:28

    And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.

  • 1 Chronicles 7:8

    And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.