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Abihud
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Abihud
Identity
- Name meaning
- father of renown · my father is majesty (Heb. av-hud)
Family
- Parent(s)
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- Spouse
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- Children
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- Tribe / people
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Era & origin
- Era
- Patriarchal-Benjamite period (date uncertain in the Chronicler's genealogy)
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- Contemporary of
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Role
- Role
- Son of Bela · Grandson of Benjamin
- Notable for
- Abihud appears once in scripture, named in the Benjamite genealogy of 1 Chronicles 8:3 as one of the three sons of Bela — *Addar, Gera, and Abihud* — and therefore a grandson of Benjamin son of Jacob.
Scripture
- First mention
- 1 Chronicles 8
- Most cited
- 1 Chronicles 8
- Key passages
Network
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- 1 entry
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Abihud appears once in scripture, named in the Benjamite genealogy of 1 Chronicles 8:3 as one of the three sons of Bela — *Addar, Gera, and Abihud* — and therefore a grandson of Benjamin son of Jacob. Nothing else is recorded of him. His Hebrew name means father of renown or my father is majesty; like many of the names in the Chronicler's rolls, it preserves the memory of a man whose only durable legacy is being remembered.
Abihud is not to be confused with the *Abiud* of Matthew 1:13, a different figure in the Greek genealogy of Christ.
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