Abner
אֲבִינֵרStrong’s H0074avner (av-ner)
Appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avner is the Hebrew word usually translated “abner” and “o abner”. It appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.”
Meaning
- A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.14.50
How it's translated
- abner 50
- and abner 7
- to abner 3
- o abner 2
- for abner 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 40
- 1 Samuel 9
- 1 Kings 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 14:51And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
- 1 Samuel 17:55And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
- 1 Samuel 17:57And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
- 1 Samuel 20:25And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, and David’s place was empty.
- 1 Samuel 26:5And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
- 1 Samuel 26:7So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲבִינֵר avner · Abner
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.14.50; son of: Ner (H5369); father of: Jaasiel (H3300H) § Abner = "my father is a lamp" Saul's cousin and army captain, treacherously slain by Joab
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.