Achbor
(עַכְבּוֹר, Standard Hebrew Akhbor, Tiberian Hebrew ʿAḵbôr) is a
name that means "gnawing" and is, by extension, used as the
word for "mouse". There are at least two persons by this name
in the Hebrew Bible....
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ak'-bor (`akhbor, "mouse"):
(1) The father of Baal-hanan, who was the seventh of the eight
kings who reigned in Edom before there were kings in Israel
(Gen 36:38,39; 1 Ch 1:49).
(2) The son of Micaiah (called in Chronicles Abdon the son of
Micah) who went with Hilkiah the priest and other high
officials, at the command of King Josiah, to consul...
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1. Father of King Baal-hanan
Ge 36:39; 1Ch 1:49
-2. Or ABDON. One of Josiah's courtiers
2Ki 22:14; 2Ch 34:20
-3. Father of Elnathan
Jer 26:22; 36:12,25...
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(mouse).
1. Father of Baalhanan king of Edom. Ge 36:38,39; 1Ch
1:49
2. Son of Michaiah, a contemporary of Josiah, 2Ki
22:12,14; Jer 26:22; 36:12 called ABDON in
2Ch 34:20 (B.C. 623.)...
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gnawing = mouse. (1.) An Edomitish king (Gen. 36:38; 1 Chr.
1:49).
(2.) One of Josiah's officers sent to the prophetess
Huldah to
inquire regarding the newly-discovered book of the law
(2 Kings
22:12, 14). He is also called Abdon (2 Chr. 34:20)....
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1. Genesis 36:38; 1 Chronicles 1:49.
2. Father of king Jehoiakim's ready tool in evil,
Elnathan (Jeremiah 26:22-23); Achbor was, on the contrary, an
instrument of good Josiah, to inquire the Lord's will from the
prophetess Huldah. Called Abdon, the son of Micah, in 2
Chronicles 34:20-21. Goodness is not always hereditary....
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Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's
chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, [even] Elishama
the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the
son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah
the son of Hananiah, and all the princes....
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So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan,
and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of
Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and
they communed with her....
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And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan
the son of Achbor, and [certain] men with him into Egypt....
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