Bible Names

Abidan: meaning of the name

Abidan means “father of judgment.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Abidan in Hebrew and Greek

אֲבִידָן H27

ʼĂbîydân (ab-ee-dawn') — Abidan, an Israelite

from H1 (אָב) and H1777 (דִּין); father of judgment (i.e. judge);

Who named Abidan in the Bible

Abidan in Scripture

“Abidan” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 1:11

    Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.

  • Numbers 2:22

    Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

  • Numbers 7:60

    On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:

  • Numbers 7:65

    And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

  • Numbers 10:24

    And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.