Abihud

Abi’hud. (father of renown, famous). Son of Bela and grandson of Benjamin. 1Ch 8:3.

(Heb. Abihud’, אֲבַיהוּד, father [i.e. possessor] of renown, q. d. Πάτροκλος; Sept. and N.T. ‘Αβιούδ), the name of two men.

1. One of the sons of Bela, the son of Benjamin (1Ch 8:3); apparently the same elsewhere called AHIHUD SEE AHIHUD (ver. 7). B.C. post 1856. SEE JACOB.

2. The great-great-grandson of Zerubbabel, and father of Eliakim, among the paternal ancestry of Jesus (Mat 1:13, where the name is Anglicized “Aliud”); apparently the same with the JUDA SEE JUDA , son of Joanna and father of Joseph in the maternal line (Luk 3:26); and also with OBADIAH SEE OBADIAH , son of Arnan and father of Shechaniah in the O.T. (1Ch 3:21). B.C. ante 410. (See Strong’s Harmony and Expos. of the Gosp. p. 16.) Comp. SEE HODAIAH.

[Abi’hud]

Son of Bela, and grandson of Benjamin. 1Ch 8:3.

("Father is Majesty"):

By: Gerson B. Levi

A grandson of Benjamin, mentioned in the genealogical list of I Chron. viii. 3.

ABIHUD (‘father is majesty’).—A Benjamite (1Ch 8:3).

a-bı̄´hud (אביהוּד, ’ăbhı̄hūdh, “father of majesty,” or “my father is majesty,” though some regard the second part as the proper name Judah): The son of Bela the oldest son of Benjamin (1Ch 8:3).