Topic
Ammihud
10 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 1:10Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave 1. Son of Laadan — And father of Elishama
Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
- Numbers 2:18Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave 1. Son of Laadan — And father of Elishama
¶ On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- Numbers 34:20Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave 2. Father of Shemuel
And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
- Numbers 34:28Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave 3. Father of Pedahel
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
- 2 Samuel 13:37Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave 4. Father of the king of Gesher
¶ But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
- 1 Chronicles 9:4Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave 5. Son of Omri
Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.
- Numbers 7:48Easton · Smith · ISBE
¶ On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:
- Numbers 7:53Easton · Smith · ISBE
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- 1 Chronicles 7:26Smith · ISBE · Nave 1. Son of Laadan
Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
- Numbers 10:22Smith · ISBE
¶ And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 8 references
People of glory; i.e., “renowned.” (1.) The father of the Ephraimite chief Elishama, at the time of the Exodus (Num. 1:10; 2:18; 7:48, 53).
(2.) Num. 34:20. (3.) Num. 34:28.
(4.) The father of Talmai, king of Geshur, to whom Absalom fled after the murder of Amnon (2 Sam. 13:37).
(5.) The son of Omri, and the father of Uthai (1 Chr. 9:4).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 10 references
- An Ephraimite father of Elishama, the chief of the tribe at the time of the Exodus. (Numbers 1:10; 2:18; 7:48,53; 10:22; 7:26) and, through him, ancestor of Joshua. (B.C. 1491.)
- A Simeonite, father of Shemuel. (Numbers 34:20)
- The father of Pedahel, prince of the tribe of Naphtali. (Numbers 34:28)
- The father-of Talmai king of Geshur. (2 Samuel 13:37)
- A descendant of Pharez, son of Judah. (1 Chronicles 9:4)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 10 references
a-mi'-hud (`ammihudh, "my kinsman is glorious"; variously in the Septuagint, Emioud or Semioud or Amioud): The name of several Old Testament persons.
(1) Father of Elishama, who in the wilderness was head of the tribe of Ephraim (Nu 1:10; 2:18; 7:48,53; 10:22; 1Ch 7:26).
(2) Father of Shemuel, who was appointed by Moses from the tribe of Simeon to divide the land among the tribes after they should have entered Canaan (Nu 34:20).
(3) Father of Pedahel, who was appointed from the tribe of Naphtali for the same purpose as the Ammihud of (2) (Nu 34:28).
(4) In the King James Version and the Revised Version, margin for the Ammihur (`ammichur,"my kinsman is noble"), who was father of Talmai of Geshur, a little Aramaic kingdom East of the Lebanon mountains, to whom Absalom fled after the murder of his brother Amnon. The weight of evidence seems to favor the reading Ammichur (2Sa 13:37).
(5) A descendant of Judah through the line of Perez (1Ch 9:4).
Edward Mack
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.