Ahimoth

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1 Chronicles 6:25 . For Ahimoth stands Mahath in 1 Chronicles 6:35 , as in Luke 3:26 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

1 Chronicles 6:25

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

AHIMOTH . A Kohathite Levite ( 1 Chronicles 6:25 ).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Son of Elkanah, of the house of Kohath. 1 Chronicles 6:25 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ahi'moth. (brother of death). A Levite, apparently in the time of David. 1 Chronicles 6:25 . In 1 Chronicles 6:35 , for Ahimoth , we find Mahath , as in Luke 3:26 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

<translit> a </translit> - <translit> hı̄´moth </translit> ( אחימות , <translit> 'aḥı̄mōth </translit> , "brother of death," or, "my brother is death"): A descendant of Kohath the son of Levi ( 1 Chronicles 6:25 ); ancestor of Elkanah the father of Samuel. The name Mahath holds a similar place in the list that follows ( 1 Chronicles 6:35 ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrew Achimoth', אֲחַימוֹת , brother of death, i e. perh. destructive; Sept. Ἀχιμώθ ), a person named with Amasai as sons of Elkanah, a Levite ( 1 Chronicles 6:25 ). From 1 Chronicles 6:35 , however, it would appear that he was rather the grandson of this Elkanah (through Amasai), and the father of the other Elkanah of 1 Chronicles 6:26 . He is there called MAHATH (See <a> MAHATH </a> ) (q.v.).