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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Abinadab
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Aaron Abarim Abed-nego Abel Abida Abigail Abimael Abinadab Abishai Abraham Abram Absalom Accad Adah Adam Admah Almodad Amalek(ite) Amasa Amminadab Amorite Amos Amram Anak (Anakim) Anamim Anem Aram Aramean Ararat Ari (Arie, Arieh) Ariel Arkite Arpachshad Arvadite Asahel Asenath Asher/ Asherah Ashkenash Asshur Asshurim Assyria |
Abinadab
The name Abinadab is assigned three times in the Bible, all in the same era. The first Abinadab we meet in the Bible is the man from Kiriath-jearim who is assigned to keep the Ark of the Covenant in his house, after it comes back from the Philistines, and after its brief stay in Beth-shemesh where 50,070 die when some take a look inside it. Abinadab's son Eleazar is consecrated to guard the Ark. Much later, king David decides to move the ark to Jerusalem (2 Sam 6) and Abinadab's two other sons Uzzah and Ahio are in charge of the cart. When Uzzah touches the Ark to keep it from falling, God strikes him dead (v7). Disheveled and angry, David leaves the Ark in the house of Obed-edom. |
(ab 4a), meaning basically father (hence abba, papa, pope), but with applications beyond the contemporary use of father. Many times `ab is used as counsellor or judge (Gen 45:8; 2 Ki 2:12). Abi (with yod) appears frequently in connection with names of places to express the lord of a country, city, village.
(nadab 1299), make willing, incite; 'an uncompelled and free movement of the will unto divine service or sacrifice,' says 
(nedaba 1299a), freewill offering; 
(nadib 1299b), noble; 
(nediba 1299c), noble deed.
