H256

'Ach'ab

akh-awb'

once (by contraction) oEchab (Jer. 29:22) {ekh- awb'}; from H251 and H1; brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon:--Ahab.

Ahab = "father's brother"

1. king of Israel, son of Omri, husband of Jezebel
2. false prophet executed by Nebuchadrezzar, time of Jeremiah