Abijam
Abijam
(Heb. Abiyam’, , father of the sea, i. q. seaman; Sept. v. r. , Vulg. Abiamn), the name always given in the book of Kings (1Ki 14:31; 1Ki 15:1; 1Ki 15:7-8) to the king of Judah (1Ki 14:1, refers to another person), elsewhere (1Ch 3:10; 2Ch 13:1-22) called ABIJAH SEE ABIJAH (q.v.). Lightfoot (Harm. O.T. in loc.) thinks that the writer in Chronicles, not describing his reign as wicked, admits the sacred JAH into his name; but which the book of Kings, charging him with following the evil ways of his father, changes into JAM. This may be fanciful; but such changes of name were not unusual (comp. SEE BETHAVEN; SEE SYCHAR ).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Abijam
father of the sea; i.e., “seaman” the name always used in Kings of the king of Judah, the son of Rehoboam, elsewhere called Abijah (1 Kings 15:1, 7, 8). (See ABIJAH, 5.)
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Abijam
a-bjam (, ‘abhyam, father of sea, or, father of west). The name given in Kings (1Ki 14:31; 1Ki 15:1, 1Ki 15:7, 1Ki 15:8) to the son of Rehoboam who succeeded him as king of Judah. See ABIJAH.
The name has puzzled scholars. Some have proposed, by adding one letter, to change it into father of his people. Others have observed that the Greek rendering in Kings is , Abeiou. Either the Hebrew copy used by the Greek translator read ‘abhyahu, Abijah, or else the translator substituted the form of the name which was to him more familiar. A few existing copies of the Hebrew have the reading Abijah, and Mat 1:7 presupposes that as the Old Testament reading. So they infer that Abijam in Ki is an erroneous reading for Abijah. This seems at present to be the prevailing view, and it is plausible. It would be more convincing, however, if the name occurred but once in the passage in Kings, instead of occurring five times. It is improbable that a scribe would repeat the same error five times within a few sentences, while a translator, if he changed the name once, would of course change it the other four times.
Exploration has revealed the fact that the whole region near the eastern end of the Mediterranean was known as the west. Father of the west is not an inapt name for Rehoboam to give to the boy who, he expects, will inherit the kingdom of Solomon and David. The effect of the secession of the ten tribes was to make that name a burlesque, and one does not wonder that it was superseded by Abijah, My father is Yahweh.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Abijam
Abijam [ABIJAH, 1]
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Abijam
[Abi’jam] See ABIJAH No. 1.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Abijam
H38
Called also Abijah and Abia.
King of Judah
1Ki 14:31; 1Ki 15:1; 2Ch 12:16
History of
1Ki 15:1-8; 2Ch 11:22; 2Ch 13
Succeeded by Asa
1Ki 15:8; 2Ch 14:1
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Abijam
Abijam (a-b’jam), father of the sea, i.e., a maritime person. 1Ki 15:1; 1Ki 15:7-8. See Abijah (2).
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Abijam
Abi’a, Abi’ah, Abi’jah or Abi’jam. See Abia, Abiah, Abijah.