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Ichabod

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Son of the corrupt priest Phinehas. Ichabod’s mother gave him this name on her deathbed as an act of mourning for the loss of the ark of the covenant (1 Sam 4:21; 14:3).

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The Lexham Bible Dictionary

Ichabod, Son of Phinehas

Ichabod, Son of Phinehas (אִיכָבוֹד‎, ikhavod). Son of the corrupt priest Phinehas. Ichabod’s mother gave him this name on her deathbed as an act of mourning for the loss of the ark of the covenant (1 Sam 4:21; 14:3).

The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary

Ichabod (Person)

ICHABOD (PERSON) [Heb ʾı̂kābôd (אִיכָבֹוד)]. Son of Phinehas, grandson of Eli (1 Sam 4:19–21; 14:3). His mother is shocked into a premature labor when she learns that the Ark has been captured by the Philistines and that her husband and father-in-law are dead. Before she dies she gives her child the

Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible

Ichabod

Ichabod. Name given to Phineas’ son (Eli’s grandson) to commemorate the glory that had departed from Israel, after the ark of God was taken by the Philistines (1 Sm 4:19–22; 14:3).Phineas was killed in the battle of Aphek, at the same time the Philistines had captured the ark. When Phineas’ wife heard

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised

Ichabod

Ichabod ikʹə-bod, īʹkə-bod [Heb. ʾî-ḵāḇôḏ—‘inglorious’; LXX B ouaí barchabó̄th, A ouaí chabó̄th, Atimos]. Son of Phinehas, Eli’s son, slain at the battle of Aphek when the ark was taken. Ichabod was born after his father’s death. His mother named him on her deathbed to indicate that the “glory

Tyndale Bible Dictionary

Ichabod

ICHABOD Name given to Phinehas’s son (Eli’s grandson) to commemorate the glory that had departed from Israel, after the ark of God was taken by the Philistines (1 Sm 4:19–22; 14:3).Phinehas was killed in the battle of Aphek, at the same time the Philistines had captured the ark. When Phinehas’s wife

The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary (Revised and Updated)

Ichabod

Ichabod (ik´uh-bod; Heb., “Alas, the glory”), a child born to the wife of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of Shiloh, at the time of the battle of Ebenezer. According to 1 Sam. 4:19–21 Ichabod’s mother gave him the name in grief over hearing that her father-in-law and her husband had been killed in the

The Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia

Ichabod

ICHABOD (“no glory”). Son of Phinehas and grandson of Eli (1 Sam 4:21). The shocking news of Israel’s defeat by the Philistines (1 Sam 4:19–22) with the consequent slaughter of Phinehas, the taking of the ark, and the death of Eli, induced labor in the pregnant wife of Phinehas and she gave birth to

The New Bible Dictionary, Third Edition

Ichabod

ICHABOD (Heb. ’îḵāḇôḏ). The name given by the wife of Phinehas to her child, on hearing that the Philistines had captured the ark (1 Sa. 4:19–22, cf. 14:3). There are several possible explanations: (1) that ’î is interrogative (‘where is the glory?’); (2) ’î is the negative particle (‘no glory,’

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible

Ichabod

Ichabod (Heb. ʾɩ̂ḵāḇôḏ)The son of Phinehas and grandson of Eli. His mother, who died at his birth, named him in response to the Philistine capture of the ark of the covenant (1 Sam. 4:22; “Alas! For the Glory” or “Where is the Glory?” referring to the “glory” or presence of Yahweh).

Eerdmans Bible Dictionary

Ichabod

Ichabod [ĭkˊə bŏd] (Heb. ˒î-ḵāḇôḏ “where is glory?”). The son of Phinehas and grandson of Eli. His mother, who died at his birth, named him in response to the Philistine capture of the ark of the covenant (1 Sam. 4:22; the name may refer to the “glory” or presence of Yahweh).

Catholic Bible Dictionary

Ichabod

ICHABOD (Hebrew, “no glory”) The son of Phinehas and the grandson of Eli (1 Sam 4:19–21; 14:3). His birth occurred prematurely when his mother was shocked to learn that the ark of the covenant had been captured by the Philistines and that her husband and father-in-law were dead. His name thus reflected

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

Ichabod

Ichabod, the son of Phinehas and grandson of the priest Eli, the tragic circumstances of whose birth are described in 1 Sam. 4:19–22. The name, acc. to 1 Sam. 4:21, means ‘The glory has departed’ (lit. ‘no glory’); hence the use of ‘Ichabod’ as an exclamation.

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