Original Word: Ἀβιά, ὁ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Transliteration: Abia
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-ee-ah')
Definition: Abijah, Abia, the name of two Israelites
Usage: Abijah, (a) a king, son of Rehoboam, (b) founder of the eighth class of priests.Word Origin
of Hebrew origin Abiyyah
Definition
Abijah, Abia, the name of two Isr.
NASB Translation
Abijah (3).

STRONGS NT 7: Ἀβιά

Ἀβιά, indeclinable proper name (Josephus, Antiquities 7, 10, 3; 8, 10, 1 ὁ Ἀβίας (Winer's Grammar, § 6, 1 m.), ), אֲבִיָה and אֲבִיָהוּ (my father is Jehovah), Abia (or Abijah, cf. B. D. under the word),

1. a king of Judah, son of Rehoboam: Matthew 1:7 (1 Kings 14:31; 1 Kings 15:1).

2. a priest, the head of a sacerdotal family, from whom, when David divided the priests into twenty-four classes (1 Chronicles 24:10), the class Abia, the eighth in order, took its name: Luke 1:5.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Abia.

Of Hebrew origin ('Abiyah); Abijah, the name of two Israelites -- Abia.

see HEBREW 'Abiyah

Forms and Transliterations

Αβια Ἀβιά Ἀβιὰ Abia Abiá Abià

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