or prolonged Abiyahuw {ab-ee-yaw'-hoo}; from
H1 and
H3050; father (i.e. worshipper) of Jah; Abijah, the name of several Israelite men and two Israelitesses:--Abiah, Abijah.
Abia or Abiah or Abijah = "Jehovah is (my) father"
- king of Judah, son and successor of Rehoboam
- second son of Samuel
- son of Jeroboam the first, king of Israel
- son of Becher, a Benjamite
- head of a priestly house (one of the 24 Levite groups)
- head of a priestly house (after the exile)
- wife of Hezron
- mother of Hezekiah (cf