Abiah

  • [ ə-BIE-ə (English) ]
  • Biblical
Variant of ABIJAH which also appears in the English Bible.

ABIJAH   male & female   Biblical
Means "my father is YAHWEH" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of several characters, both male and female, including the second king of Judah.
YAHWEH   male   Theology
A name of the Hebrew God, represented in Hebrew by the tetragrammaton ("four letters") יהוה (Yod Heh Vav Heh), which was transliterated into Roman script as Y H W H. Because it was considered blasphemous to utter the name of God, it was only written and never spoken, which resulted in the original pronunciation becoming lost. The name may have originally been derived from the old Semitic root הוה (hawah) meaning "to be" or "to become".
EQUIVALENTS
BIBLICAL GREEK: Abia
BIBLICAL HEBREW: 'Aviyah
BIBLICAL LATIN: Abia
BIBLICAL: Abijah
HEBREW: Aviya
FEMININE FORMS
HEBREW: Avia
OTHER FORMS
THEOLOGY: Yahweh