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Meaning and etymology of the name Ahilud
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Ahilud 
It's not clear if there's only one or two men named Ahilud in the Bible. Some sources say two, others say that those proposed two are one. The text of the Bible isn't decisive and the ultimate answer must be that we simply don't know, although it seems likely that the two are one. All we know is that there is an Ahilud, who is the father of Jehoshaphat who is a recorder in the times of David and Solomon (2 Samuel 8:16 to 1 Kings 4:3), and there is an Ahilud, who is the father of Baana, who is Solomon's deputy in Taanach, Megiddo and Beth-shean (1 Kings 4:12). If Ahilud was somewhat of a big-wig in the early monarchy, his two sons may very well have been too.
The name Ahilud consists of two elements. The first part comes from the word  (ah), meaning brother, or figuratively, friend or close associate. The post-fixed letter yod makes the word ah possessed, and the whole Ahi-part means either my brother, or brother of. See the identical name Ahi.
The second part of the name Ahilud probably (or possibly) comes from the verb  (yalad), meaning to beget, or bring forth. It's obvious derivatives are  (walad), child, and the adjective  (yillod), meaning born.
All together, the name Ahihud would translate to something like Brother Of That What Was Born, which is curious even to Hebrew standards. None of the sources consulted offers a way out of this conundrum, but perhaps the name Ahihud has to do with the evenly mysterious name Lud, which is the name of one son of Shem, or the gentilicium Ludim, which descended from Shem's nephew Mizraim.
Ahihud may simply mean Brother/Friend Of Lud/Ludim. This proposal is not all that far fetched because the feminine name Lydia means Of Lud.
For a meaning of the name Ahilud, BDB Theological Dictionary and NOBS Study Bible Name List quote Gesenius and read A Child's Brother. Alfred Jones (Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names), who usually stays close to what Gesenius dictates, suggests the curious Brother Of One Born.
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