Ahio

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

AHIO . 1 . Son of Abinadab (No. 3 ), and brother of Uzzah. He helped to drive the cart on which the ark was placed when removed from Ahinadab’s house (  2 Samuel 6:3-4 ,   1 Chronicles 13:7 ). 2 . A son of Jeiel, and brother of Kish, the father of Saul (  1 Chronicles 8:31;   1 Chronicles 9:37 ). 3 . A Benjamite (  1 Chronicles 8:14 ).

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Son of Abinadab. While Uzzah walked at the side of the ark, Ahio went before it, guiding the oxen which drew the cart, after having brought it from his father's house at Gibeah (the Benjamite quarter of Kirjath-jearim) ( 2 Samuel 6:3-4;  1 Chronicles 13:7).

2.  1 Chronicles 8:14.

3.  1 Chronicles 8:31;  1 Chronicles 9:37.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ahi'o. (Brotherly).

1. Son of Abinadab, who accompanied the Ark when it was brought out of his father's house.  2 Samuel 6:3-4;  1 Chronicles 13:7. (B.C.1043).

2. A Benjamite, one of the sons of Beriah.  1 Chronicles 8:14.

3. A Benjamite, son of Jehiel.  1 Chronicles 8:31;  1 Chronicles 9:37.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Son of Abinadab, and who with his brother Uzzah drove the cart on which was the ark of God when Uzzah was struck dead.  2 Samuel 6:3,4;  1 Chronicles 13:7 .

2. Son of Beriah a descendant of Benjamin.  1 Chronicles 8:14 .

3. Son of Jehiel, descendant of Benjamin.  1 Chronicles 8:31;  1 Chronicles 9:37 .

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Ahio ( A-Hî'O ), Brotherly. 1. Son of Abinadab.  2 Samuel 6:3;  2 Samuel 4:2. A descendant of Benjamin.  1 Chronicles 8:14. 3. A son of Jehiel.  1 Chronicles 8:31;  1 Chronicles 9:37.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

• One of the sons of Beriah (1Chronicles 8:14).
• One of the sons of Jehiel the Gibeonite (1Chronicles 8:31; 9:37).
• One of the sons of Abinadab the Levite. While Uzzah went by the side of the ark, he walked before it guiding the oxen which drew the cart on which it was carried, after having brought it from his father's house in Gibeah (1Chronicles 13:7;  2 Samuel 6:3,4 ).

Holman Bible Dictionary

 2 Samuel 6:3 2 Samuel 6:6-7 2 1 Chronicles 8:14 1 Chronicles 8:31 1 Chronicles 9:37

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

A son of Abinadab, who went before the ark of God on its way to Jerusalem from his father's house; thus escaping the fate of Uzzah his brother,  2 Samuel 6:3-7 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a - hı̄´ō ( אחיו , 'aḥyō , variously explained as "his brother," "brotherly," "brother of Yahweh," "my brother is Yah"): Proper names containing a similar form of the name of Yahweh are found on the ostraca recently exhumed at Samaria. The word is always treated as a common noun in the ordinary Greek copies, being rendered either "brother" or "brothers," or "his brother" or "his brothers"; but this is probably to be taken as an instance of the relative inferiority of the Greek text as compared with the Massoretic Text. See Ostraca .

(1) One of the sons of Beriah, the son of Elpaal, the son of Shaharaim and Hushim, reckoned among the families of Benjamin ( 1 Chronicles 8:14 ). Beriah and Shema are described as 'ancestral heads' "of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath."

(2) A descendant of Jeiel ("the father of Gibeon") and his wife Maacah ( 1 Chronicles 8:31;  1 Chronicles 9:37 ). King Saul apparently came from the same family ( 1 Chronicles 8:30 ,  1 Chronicles 8:33;  1 Chronicles 9:39 ).

(3) One of the men who drove the new cart when David first attempted to bring the ark from the house of Abinadab to Jerusalem ( 2 Samuel 6:3 ,  2 Samuel 6:4;  1 Chronicles 13:7 ). In Samuel Uzza and Ahio are called sons of Abinadab. By the most natural understanding of the Biblical data about 100 years had elapsed since the ark was brought to the house; they were sons of that Abinadab in the sense of being his descendants. Whether he had a successor of the same name living in David's time is a matter of conjecture.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrew Achyo', אְְחיו , Brotherly; Sept. in all cases translates as an appellative, His Brother or Brothers), the name of two men. (In  1 Chronicles 8:14 we should read אָחַין , his brother, as an appellative of Shashak following.)

1. The fifth named of the sons of Jehiel, or Jeiel, the Gibeonite, by Maachah ( 1 Chronicles 8:31;  1 Chronicles 9:37), B.C. post 1612.

2. One of the sons of the Levite Abinadab, who went before the new cart on which the ark was placed when David first attempted to remove it to Jerusalem, for the purpose of guiding the oxen, while his brother Uzzah walked by the cart — ( 2 Samuel 6:3-4;  1 Chronicles 13:7), B.C. 1043. (See Uzzah).

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Ahi´o (brotherly), one of the sons of Abinadab, who, with his brother Uzzah, drove the new cart on which the ark was placed when David first attempted to remove it to Jerusalem. Ahio went before to guide the oxen, while Uzzah walked by the cart ( 2 Samuel 6:3-4) [UZZAH].