Ahasbai

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

2 Samuel 23:34.

Holman Bible Dictionary

2 Samuel 23:34 1 Chronicles 11:35

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

AHASBAI . Father of Eliphelet ( 2 Samuel 23:34 ), and a member at the family of Maacah, settled at Bethmaacah ( 2 Samuel 20:14 ), or a native of the Syrian kingdom of Maacah ( 2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 10:8 ).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Father of Eliphelet. 2 Samuel 23:34 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ahas'ba-i. (blooming). Father of Eli-phelet, one of David's thirty-seven captains. 2 Samuel 23:34. In the corrupt list in 1 Chronicles 11:35, Eliphelet appears as "Eliphal the son of Ur." (B.C. about 1050).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a -has´bı̄ ( אחסבּי , 'aḥaṣbay , "blooming"): The father of Eliphelet, a Maacathite, a soldier in David's army ( 2 Samuel 23:34 ). He was either a native of Abel-beth-maacah ( 2 Samuel 20:14 ) or, more probably, of Maacah in Syria ( 2 Samuel 10:6 ). The list in 1 Chronicles 11:35 , 1 Chronicles 11:36 gives different names entirely. Here we have Ur and Hepher, which simply show that the text is corrupt in one or both places.