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Abihu

Mentioned 1699–1014 BC traditional (Jones)

Father of Him; i.e., “worshipper of God”, the second of the sons of Aaron (Ex. 6:23; Num. 3:2; 26:60; 1 Chr. 6:3). Along with his three brothers he was consecrated to the priest’s office (Ex. 28:1).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Aaron
Mother
Elisheba
Siblings
Eleazar, Ithamar, Nadab
Tagged in
12 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Abihu: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Abihu, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. location not graded: Sinai1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1870–843 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Abihu’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Abihu in 12 tagged verses across 4 books.

Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Exodus4
  2. Leviticus1
  3. Numbers4
  4. 1 Chronicles3

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBAbihu 12
KJVAbihu 12
ASVAbihu 12

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 12 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Exodus4 verses
  1. 6:23

    And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

  2. 24:1

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.

  3. 24:9

    Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

  4. 28:1

    “Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.

Leviticus1 verse
  1. 10:1

    Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.

Numbers4 verses
  1. 3:2

    These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, then Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

  2. 3:4

    Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

  3. 26:60

    Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar were born to Aaron,

  4. 26:61

    but Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.

1 Chronicles3 verses
  1. 6:3

    The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

  2. 24:1

    These were the divisions of the descendants of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

  3. 24:2

    But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, and they had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Father of Him; i.e., “worshipper of God”, the second of the sons of Aaron (Ex. 6:23; Num. 3:2; 26:60; 1 Chr. 6:3). Along with his three brothers he was consecrated to the priest’s office (Ex. 28:1). With his father and elder brother he accompanied the seventy elders part of the way up the mount with Moses (Ex. 24:1, 9). On one occasion he and Nadab his brother offered incense in their censers filled with “strange” (i.e., common) fire, i.e., not with fire taken from the great brazen altar (Lev. 6:9, etc.), and for this offence they were struck dead, and were taken out and buried without the camp (Lev. 10:1-11; comp. Num. 3:4; 26:61; 1 Chr. 24:2). It is probable that when they committed this offence they were intoxicated, for immediately after is given the law prohibiting the use of wine or strong drink to the priests.