Bible Names

Ahitub: meaning of the name

Ahitub means “brother of goodness.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ahitub in Hebrew and Greek

אֲחִיטוּב H285

ʼĂchîyṭûwb (akh-ee-toob') — Achitub, the name of several priests

from H251 (אָח) and H2898 (טוּב); brother of goodness;

People named Ahitub in the Bible

Ahitub in Scripture

“Ahitub” appears in 15 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Samuel 14:3

    And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I–chabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

  • 1 Samuel 22:9

    Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

  • 1 Samuel 22:11

    Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.

  • 1 Samuel 22:12

    And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.

  • 1 Samuel 22:20

    And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

  • 2 Samuel 8:17

    And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;

  • 1 Chronicles 6:7

    Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:8

    And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,