Bible Names

Ammihud: meaning of the name

Ammihud means “people of praise.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ammihud in Hebrew and Greek

עַמִּיהוּד H5989

ʻAmmîyhûwd (am-mee-hood') — Ammihud, the name of three Israelites

from H5971 (עַם) and H1935 (הוֹד); people of splendor;

People named Ammihud in the Bible

Ammihud in Scripture

“Ammihud” appears in 10 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Numbers 1:10

    Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

  • Numbers 2:18

    On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

  • Numbers 7:48

    On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:

  • Numbers 7:53

    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 Elishama the son of Ammihud.

  • Numbers 10:22

    And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

  • Numbers 34:20

    And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

  • Numbers 34:28

    And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.

  • 2 Samuel 13:37

    But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.