Ammihud

a -mı̄´hud ( עמּיהוּד , ‛ammı̄hūdh , "my kinsman is glorious"; variously in the Septuagint, Ἐμιούδ , Emioúd or Σεμιούδ , Semioud or Άμιούδ , Amioúd ): The name of several Old Testament persons.

(1) Father of Elishama, who in the wilderness was head of the tribe of Ephraim ( Numbers 1:10; Numbers 2:18; Numbers 7:48 , Numbers 7:53; Numbers 10:22; 1 Chronicles 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 ( Numbers 34:20 ).

(3) Father of Pedahel, who was appointed from the tribe of Naphtali for the same purpose as the Ammihud of (2) ( Numbers 34:28 ).

(4) In the King James Version and the Revised Version, margin for the Ammihur ( עמּיחוּר , ‛ammı̄ḥūr ,"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 ( 2 Samuel 13:37 ).

(5) A descendant of Judah through the line of Perez ( 1 Chronicles 9:4 ).