Abiathar
אֶבְיָתָרStrong’s H0054evyatar (ev-ya-tar)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Evyatar is the Hebrew word usually translated “abiathar”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.22.20
How it's translated
- abiathar 17
- and abiathar 8
- and to abiathar 2
- to abiathar 1
- of abiathar 1
- and for abiathar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 9
- 1 Kings 9
- 1 Samuel 6
- 1 Chronicles 4
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 22:21And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD’s priests.
- 1 Samuel 22:22And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.
- 1 Samuel 23:6And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
- 1 Samuel 23:9And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
- 1 Samuel 30:7And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
- 2 Samuel 8:17And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
Hebrew dictionary
אֶבְיָתָר evyatar · Abiathar
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.22.20; son of: Ahimelech (H0288); father of: Ahimelech (H0288I), Jonathan (H3083I) Also named: Abiathar (Ἀβιαθάρ "Abiathar" G0008) § Abiathar = "my father is great" priest, son of Ahitub (Ahimelech), faithful to David, but later rebelled with Adonijah
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.