Hebrew word · H283

אַחְיוֹ

ve'achyo

Ahio

A personal name built on ach ("brother") with the ending -yo. It is usually read as "his brother" or "brotherly". Some scholars read the ending as a short form of the divine name ("brother of Yah"), but this is less likely.

Appears 6 times in 6 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.6.3;

son of: Abinadab (H0041);

brother of: Eleazar (H0499H) and Uzzah (H5798A)

§ Ahio = "brotherly" or "fraternal"

1) son of Abinadab who sheltered the ark

2) a Benjamite

3) another Benjamite of Saul's ancestry

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of 1 Chronicles 9:37

Range of meaning

A personal name built on ach ("brother") with the ending -yo. It is usually read as "his brother" or "brotherly". Some scholars read the ending as a short form of the divine name ("brother of Yah"), but this is less likely.

Against the English

Every English version simply writes it as the name "Ahio". No translation of 1 Chronicles 9:37 renders it "his brother".

Used elsewhere in the period

The same consonants appear in 2 Samuel 6:3–4 (Ahio son of Abinadab) and 1 Chronicles 8:14 and 8:31. In 2 Samuel 6:3 the Greek Septuagint reads the letters as "his brothers" rather than as a name. That shows the word could be read either way. In this verse the Septuagint has the name Achiō.

Where it appears

2 Samuel · 2

  1. 2 Samuel 6:3 וְאַחְי֗וֹ and Ahio

    They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart,

  2. 2 Samuel 6:4 וְאַחְי֕וֹ and Ahio

    bringing with it the ark of God. And Ahio was walking in front of the ark.

1 Chronicles · 4

  1. 1 Chronicles 8:14 וְאַחְי֥וֹ and Ahio

    Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,

  2. 1 Chronicles 8:31 וְאַחְי֖וֹ and Ahio

    Gedor, Ahio, Zecher,

  3. 1 Chronicles 9:37 וְאַחְי֔וֹ and Ahio

    Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.

    Here: Another son of Jeiel. The name probably means "his brother" or "brotherly". It is spelled the same way as Ahio son of Abinadab, who walked in front of the ark in 2 Samuel 6:3–4, but he is a different man.

  4. 1 Chronicles 13:7 וְאַחְי֔וֹ and Ahio

    So they carried the ark of God from the house of Abinadab on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding the cart.

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