First name Ahijah in the world's Bibles
In the bible, Ahijah is the name of the priest at Shiloh, nephew of Ichabod (1 SA 14:3), and prophet (1KI 11:29), as well as name of secretary for King Solomon (1KI 4:3), of the house of Issachar, father of Baasha (1KI 15:27), and son of Jerahmeel (1CH 2:25)
(and others...)
. Meaning of the name: same with Ahiah. Related names are: Jeroboam, Nebat, Ahiah . The translations of Ahijah in 20 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the ichthys
below, from A-Hi-Gia in Vietnamese to Αχια in Greek!
Wear it!And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field: (1KI 11:29)
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces: (1KI 11:30)
Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat. (1KI 12:15)
And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people. (1KI 14:2)
And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. (1KI 14:4)
And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. (1KI 14:4)
And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman. (1KI 14:5)
And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings. (1KI 14:6)
And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. (1KI 14:18)
And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon. (1KI 15:27)
And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: (1KI 15:29)
In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years. (1KI 15:33)
And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. (1KI 21:22)
And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah: (2KI 9:9)
And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah. (1CH 2:25)
Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, (1CH 11:36)
And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things. (1CH 26:20)
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat? (2CH 9:29)
So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. (2CH 10:15)
And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan, (NEH 10:26)
Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder. (1KI 4:3)
And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud. (1CH 8:7)
And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I-chabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone. (1SA 14:3)
Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, (1CH 11:35)