Bible Names

Abilene: meaning of the name

Abilene means “the father of mourning.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Abilene in Hebrew and Greek

Ἀβιληνή G9

Abilēnḗ — Abilene, a region of Syria

of foreign origin (compare H058);

Places named Abilene

Abilene in Scripture

“Abilene” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Luke 3:1

    Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,