Bible Names

Ahab: meaning of the name

Ahab means “uncle, or father's brother.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ahab in Hebrew and Greek

אַחְאָב H256

ʼAchʼâb (akh-awb') — Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon

once (by contraction) אֶחָב (Jeremiah 29:22); from H251 (אָח) and H1 (אָב); brother...

People named Ahab in the Bible

Ahab in Scripture

“Ahab” appears in 82 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Kings 16:28

    So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

  • 1 Kings 16:29

    And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

  • 1 Kings 16:30

    And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.

  • 1 Kings 16:33

    And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

  • 1 Kings 17:1

    And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

  • 1 Kings 18:1

    And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

  • 1 Kings 18:2

    And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.

  • 1 Kings 18:3

    And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly: