# אַחְאָב (achav)

Israeli respelling: ach-av. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H256. 81 Old Testament occurrences.

Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon

King James renderings: Ahab.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/achav-h256

## Occurrences

- [1 Kings 16:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/16/28) — So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
- [1 Kings 16:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/16/29) — And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned ov…
- [1 Kings 16:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/16/30) — And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.
- [1 Kings 16:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/16/33) — And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
- [1 Kings 17:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/1) — And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there…
- [1 Kings 18:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/1) — And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I…
- [1 Kings 18:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/2) — And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
- [1 Kings 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/3) — And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
- [1 Kings 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/5) — And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the…
- [1 Kings 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/6) — So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
- [1 Kings 18:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/9) — And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
- [1 Kings 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/12) — And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I c…
- [1 Kings 18:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/16) — So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
- [1 Kings 18:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/17) — And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
- [1 Kings 18:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/20) — So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
- [1 Kings 18:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/41) — And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
- [1 Kings 18:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/42) — So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face bet…
- [1 Kings 18:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/44) — And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said,…
- [1 Kings 18:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/45) — And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went…
- [1 Kings 18:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/46) — And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
- [1 Kings 19:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/1) — And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
- [1 Kings 20:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/2) — And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,
- [1 Kings 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/13) — And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I…
- [1 Kings 20:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/14) — And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall or…
- [1 Kings 21:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/1) — And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of…
- [1 Kings 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/2) — And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I…
- [1 Kings 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/3) — And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
- [1 Kings 21:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/4) — And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I wil…
- [1 Kings 21:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/8) — So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his…
- [1 Kings 21:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/15) — And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vine…
- [1 Kings 21:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/16) — And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take p…
- [1 Kings 21:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/18) — Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to posses…
- [1 Kings 21:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/20) — And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil…
- [1 Kings 21:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/21) — Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and hi…
- [1 Kings 21:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/24) — Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
- [1 Kings 21:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/25) — But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
- [1 Kings 21:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/27) — And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcl…
- [1 Kings 21:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/29) — Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his so…
- [1 Kings 22:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/20) — And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on th…
- [1 Kings 22:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/39) — Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not wr…
- [1 Kings 22:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/40) — So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
- [1 Kings 22:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/41) — And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
- [1 Kings 22:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/49) — Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
- [1 Kings 22:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/51) — Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over…
- [2 Kings 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/1/1) — Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
- [2 Kings 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/3/1) — Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve year…
- [2 Kings 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/3/5) — But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
- [2 Kings 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/16) — And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Je hoshaphat king o…
- [2 Kings 8:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/18) — And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the si…
- [2 Kings 8:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/25) — In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
- [2 Kings 8:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/27) — And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law o…
- [2 Kings 8:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/28) — And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
- [2 Kings 8:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/29) — And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king…
- [2 Kings 9:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/7) — And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servan…
- [2 Kings 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/8) — For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left…
- [2 Kings 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/9) — 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:
- [2 Kings 9:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/25) — Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, wh…
- [2 Kings 9:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/29) — And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
- [2 Kings 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/1) — And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them t…
- [2 Kings 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/10) — Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the L…
- [2 Kings 10:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/11) — So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left hi…
- [2 Kings 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/17) — And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD…
- [2 Kings 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/18) — And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
- [2 Kings 10:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/30) — And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Aha…
- [2 Kings 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/3) — For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did A…
- [2 Kings 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/13) — And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a di…
- [2 Chronicles 18:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/1) — Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
- [2 Chronicles 18:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/2) — And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he ha…
- [2 Chronicles 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/3) — And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, a…
- [2 Chronicles 18:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/19) — And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner…
- [2 Chronicles 21:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/21/6) — And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought tha…
- [2 Chronicles 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/21/13) — But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whored…
- [2 Chronicles 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/3) — He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
- [2 Chronicles 22:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/4) — Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his d…
- [2 Chronicles 22:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/5) — He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilea…
- [2 Chronicles 22:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/6) — And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And…
- [2 Chronicles 22:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/7) — And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi…
- [2 Chronicles 22:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/8) — And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the bre…
- [Jeremiah 29:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/21) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto…
- [Jeremiah 29:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/22) — And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like…
- [Micah 6:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/6/16) — For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolat…