King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G7
Transliteration: Abia
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-ee-ah')
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Short Definition: Abijah, Abia, the name of two Israelites
Meaning: Abijah -- the name of two Israelites
Ἀβιά, indeclinable proper name (Josephus, Antiquities 7, 10, 3; 8, 10, 1 ὁ Ἀβίας (Winer's Grammar, § 6, 1 m.), ), אֲבִיָה and אֲבִיָהוּ (my father is Jehovah), Abia (or Abijah, cf. B. D. under the word),
Word Summary
Abia: Abijah, Abia, the name of two Israelites
Original Word: ἈβιάTransliteration: Abia
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-ee-ah')
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Short Definition: Abijah, Abia, the name of two Israelites
Meaning: Abijah -- the name of two Israelites
Strong's Concordance
Abia. Of Hebrew origin ('Abiyah); Abijah, the name of two Israelites -- Abia.
see HEBREW 'Abiyah
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 7: ἈβιάἈβιά, indeclinable proper name (Josephus, Antiquities 7, 10, 3; 8, 10, 1 ὁ Ἀβίας (Winer's Grammar, § 6, 1 m.), ), אֲבִיָה and אֲבִיָהוּ (my father is Jehovah), Abia (or Abijah, cf. B. D.
1. a king of Judah, son of Rehoboam: Matthew 1:7 (1 Kings 14:31; 1 Kings 15:1).
2. a priest, the head of a sacerdotal family, from whom, when David divided the priests into twenty-four classes (1 Chronicles 24:10), the class Abia, the eighth in order, took its name: Luke 1:5.