Bible Names

Abinadab: meaning of the name

Abinadab means “father of a vow, or of willingness.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Abinadab in Hebrew and Greek

אֲבִינָדָב H41

ʼĂbîynâdâb (ab-ee-naw-dawb') — Abinadab, the name of four Israelites

from H1 (אָב) and H5068 (נָדַב); father of generosity (i.e. liberal);

People named Abinadab in the Bible

Abinadab in Scripture

“Abinadab” appears in 12 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Samuel 7:1

    And the men of Kirjath–jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord.

  • 1 Samuel 16:8

    Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.

  • 1 Samuel 17:13

    And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

  • 1 Samuel 31:2

    And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi–shua, Saul’s sons.

  • 2 Samuel 6:3

    And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.

  • 2 Samuel 6:4

    And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.

  • 1 Kings 4:11

    The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

  • 1 Chronicles 2:13

    And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,