Ahijah ( ''ʾĂḥīyyā'', "brother of Yah";

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

and Douay–Rheims: Ahias) is a name of several biblical individuals: #

Ahijah the Shilonite Ahijah the Shilonite (; ) was a Levite prophet of Shiloh (biblical city), Shiloh in the days of Solomon, as mentioned in the Hebrew Bible's Books of Kings, First Books of Kings. Ahijah foretold to Jeroboam that he would become king (). The Hebre ...

, the Biblical prophet who divided the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. # One of the sons of

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(1 Chr. 8:7, RV). In AV (KJV) called "Ahiah." # One of the five sons of Jerahmeel, who was great-grandson of Judah (1 Chr. 2:25). # A Pelonite, one of David's heroes (1 Chr. 11:36); called also

Eliam David's Mighty Warriors (also known as David's Mighty Men or the Gibborim; ) are a group of 37 men in the Hebrew Bible who fought with King David and are identified in , part of the "supplementary information" added to the Second Book of Samuel ...

(2 Sam. 23:34). # A

Levite Levites ( ; ) or Levi are Jewish males who claim patrilineal descent from the Tribe of Levi. The Tribe of Levi descended from Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah. The surname ''Halevi'', which consists of the Hebrew definite article "" ''Ha-' ...

having charge of the sacred treasury in the temple (1 Chr. 26:20). # One of Solomon's secretaries (1 Kings 4:3). # Son of Ahitub (1 Sam. 14:3, 18),

Ichabod Ichabod ( ''ʾĪḵāḇōḏ'', "without glory", or "where is the glory?") is mentioned in the first Book of Samuel as the son of Phinehas, a priest at the biblical shrine of Shiloh, who was born on the day that the Israelites' Ark of God was ...

's brother; the same probably as

Ahimelech Ahimelech ( ''ʾĂḥīmeleḵ'', "my brother is king"/"brother of a king") was an Israelite priest and served as the grand priest of the town of Nob. In the Book of Samuel, he was described as the son of Ahitub and father of Abiathar (), ...

, who was High Priest at Nob in the reign of

Saul Saul (; , ; , ; ) was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah and, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, the first king of the United Monarchy, a polity of uncertain historicity. His reign, traditionally placed in the late eleventh c ...

(1 Sam. 22:11) and at Shiloh, where the

Tabernacle According to the Hebrew Bible, the tabernacle (), also known as the Tent of the Congregation (, also Tent of Meeting), was the portable earthly dwelling of God used by the Israelites from the Exodus until the conquest of Canaan. Moses was instru ...

was set up. Some, however, suppose that

was the brother of Ahijah, and that they both officiated as high priests, Ahijah at

Gibeah Gibeah (; ''Gīḇəʿā''; ''Gīḇəʿaṯ'') is the name of three places mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in the tribes of Tribe of Benjamin, Benjamin, Tribe of Judah, Judah, and Tribe of Ephraim, Ephraim respectively. Gibeah of Benjamin, als ...

or Kirjath-jearim, and Ahimelech at Nob. # Father of King

Baasha of Israel Baasha (, ''Baʿšāʾ'') was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel. He was the son of Ahijah of the Tribe of Issachar. Baasha's story is told in . Reign Baasha became king of Israel in ...

A man named

Ahijah Ahijah ( ''ʾĂḥīyyā'', "brother of Yahweh, Yah"; Latin and Douay–Rheims Bible, Douay–Rheims: Ahias) is a name of several biblical individuals: # Ahijah the Shilonite, the Biblical prophet who divided the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. # One ...

also appears in the Babylonian Talmud in the 2nd century AD as one of the first Babylonian Exilarchs.

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* {{given name 11th-century BCE high priests of Israel Set index articles on Hebrew Bible people House of Baasha el:Αχιά#Άλλα πρόσωπα με το όνομα Αχιά