אֶבְיָתָר

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.

The 19 distinct written forms H54 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
אֶבְיָתָ֖ר	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 18:16	3
וְ/אֶבְיָתָ֖ר	Noun, Proper	1 Kings 4:4	3
אֶבְיָתָ֑ר	Noun, Proper	1 Samuel 22:20	2
אֶבְיָתָ֔ר	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 24:6	2
אֶבְיָתָ֛ר	Noun, Proper	1 Samuel 30:7	2
אֶבְיָתָ֣ר	Noun, Proper	1 Kings 1:7	2
אֶבְיָתָ֥ר	Noun, Proper	1 Kings 1:42	2
וּ/לְ/אֶבְיָתָ֖ר	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 15:11	2
וּ/לְ/אֶבְיָתָ֣ר	Noun, Proper	1 Kings 1:25	2
אֶבְיָתָ֤ר	Noun, Proper	1 Samuel 30:7	1
אֶבְיָתָ֧ר	Noun, Proper	1 Samuel 23:6	1
אֶבְיָתָֽר	Noun, Proper	1 Kings 2:35	1
אֶבְיָתָר֙	Noun, Proper	2 Samuel 17:15	1
וְ/אֶבְיָתָ֔ר	Noun, Proper	1 Chronicles 27:34	1
וְ/אֶבְיָתָ֛ר	Noun, Proper	2 Samuel 15:29	1
וּ/לְ/אֶבְיָתָ֨ר	Noun, Proper	1 Kings 2:26	1
וּ/לְ/אֶבְיָתָר֙	Noun, Proper	1 Kings 1:19	1
לְ/אֶבְיָתָ֑ר	Noun, Proper	2 Samuel 15:36	1
לְ/אֶבְיָתָ֗ר	Noun, Proper	1 Samuel 22:22	1

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H54, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

• אב ʼâb H1 father

Shares the same root

• אב ʼab H2 father
• אוב ʼôwb H178 water skin bottle

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

• אבי ʼĂbîy H21 Abi
• אביאל ʼĂbîyʼêl H22 Abiel
• אביאסף ʼĂbîyʼâçâph H23 Abiasaph
• אבי גבעון ʼĂbîy Gibʻôwn H25 father of Gibeon
• אביגיל ʼĂbîygayil H26 Abigail
• אבידן ʼĂbîydân H27 Abidan
• אבידע ʼĂbîydâʻ H28 Abida
• אביה ʼĂbîyâh H29 Abijah
• אביהוא ʼĂbîyhûwʼ H30 Abihu
• אביהוד ʼĂbîyhûwd H31 Ahihud
• אביהיל ʼĂbîyhayil H32 Abihail
• אביטוב ʼĂbîyṭûwb H36 Abitub
• אביטל ʼĂbîyṭâl H37 Abital
• אבים ʼĂbîyâm H38 Abijam
• אבימאל ʼĂbîymâʼêl H39 Abimael
• אבימלך ʼĂbîymelek H40 Abimelech
• אבינדב ʼĂbîynâdâb H41 Abinadab
• אבינעם ʼĂbîynôʻam H42 Abinoam
• אביעזר ʼĂbîyʻezer H44 Abiezer
• אביעלבון ʼĂbîy-ʻalbôwn H45 Abialbon
• אבירם ʼĂbîyrâm H48 Abiram
• אבישג ʼĂbîyshag H49 Abishag
• אבישוע ʼĂbîyshûwaʻ H50 Abishua
• אבישור ʼĂbîyshûwr H51 Abishur
• Αβιαθαρ Abiathár G8 Abiathar

+6 more proper names from this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 35 — not the complete family. 31 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Abiathar). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Father of abundance, or my father excels, the son of Ahimelech the high priest. He was the tenth high priest, and the fourth in descent from Eli. When his father was slain with the priests of Nob, he escaped, and bearing with him the ephod, he joined David, who was then in the cave of Adullam (1 Sam. 22:20-23; 23:6). He remained with David, and became priest of the party of which he was the leader (1 Sam. 30:7). When David ascended the throne of Judah, Abiathar was appointed high priest (1 Chr. 15:11; 1 Kings 2:26) and the "king's companion" (1 Chr. 27:34). Meanwhile Zadok, of the house of Eleazar, had been made high priest. These appointments continued in force till the end of David's reign (1 Kings 4:4). Abiathar was deposed (the sole historical instance of the deposition of a high priest) and banished to his home at Anathoth by Solomon, because he took part in the attempt to raise Adonijah to the throne. The priesthood thus passed from the house of Ithamar (1 Sam. 2:30-36; 1 Kings 1:19; 2:26, 27). Zadok now became sole high priest. In Mark 2:26, reference is made to an occurrence in "the days of Abiathar the high priest." But from 1 Sam. 22, we learn explicitly that this event took place when Ahimelech, the father of Abiathar, was high priest. The apparent discrepancy is satisfactorily explained by interpreting the words in Mark as referring to the life-time of Abiathar, and not to the term of his holding the office of high priest. It is not implied in Mark that he was actual high priest at the time referred to. Others, however, think that the loaves belonged to Abiathar, who was at that time (Lev. 24:9) a priest, and that he either himself gave them to David, or persuaded his father to give them.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(father of abundance, i.e. liberal), High priest and fourth in descent from Eli. (B.C. 1060-1012.) Abiathar was the only one of the all the sons of Ahimelech the high priest who escaped the slaughter inflicted upon his father's house by Saul, in revenge for his father's house by Saul, in revenge of his having inquired of the Lord for David and given him the shew-bread to eat. (1 Samuel 22:1) ... Abiathar having become high priest fled to David, and was thus enabled to inquire of the Lord for him. (1 Samuel 23:9; 30:7; 2 Samuel 2:1; 5:19) etc. He adhered to David in his wanderings while pursued by Saul; he was with him while he reigned in Hebron, and afterwards in Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 2:1-3) He continued faithful to him in Absalom's rebellion. (2 Samuel 15:24,29,35,36; 17:15-17; 19:11) When, however, Adonijah set himself up fro David's successor on the throne, in opposition to Solomon, Abiathar sided with him, while Zadok was on Solomon's side. For this Abiathar was deprived of the high priesthood. Zadok had joined David at Hebron, (1 Chronicles 12:28) so that there was henceforth who high priests in the reign of David, and till the deposition of Abiathar by Solomon, when Zadok became the sole high priest.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

excellent father; father of the remnant

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This word appears in 28 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 28 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

Read these verses in the Septuagint

• 1 Samuel 22:20
• 2 Samuel 8:17
• 1 Kings 1:7
• 1 Chronicles 15:11

This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.