Difference between revisions of "Ammihud"

<p> '''''a''''' -'''''mı̄´hud''''' ( עמּיהוּד , <i> '''''‛ammı̄hūdh''''' </i> , "my kinsman is glorious"; variously in the Septuagint, Ἐμιούδ , <i> '''''Emioúd''''' </i> or Σεμιούδ , <i> '''''Semioud''''' </i> or Άμιούδ , <i> '''''Amioúd''''' </i> ): The name of several Old Testament persons. </p> <p> (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 ). </p> <p> (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 ). </p> <p> (3) Father of Pedahel, who was appointed from the tribe of Naphtali for the same purpose as the Ammihud of (2) ( Numbers 34:28 ). </p> <p> (4) In the King James Version and the Revised Version, margin for the Ammihur ( עמּיחוּר , <i> '''''‛ammı̄ḥūr''''' </i> ,"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 ). </p> <p> (5) A descendant of Judah through the line of Perez ( 1 Chronicles 9:4 ). </p>

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