Bible Dictionary
Ahio
Ahio was the name of several Benjamites and of a descendant of Abinadab who helped guide the cart carrying the ark toward Jerusalem.
Definition
Ahio is the name of several Benjamites and of a descendant of Abinadab associated with David’s first attempt to bring the ark to Jerusalem. The Benjaminite Ahios appear in genealogical lists.
Biblical Usage
Ahio helped drive the cart carrying the ark from Abinadab’s house, walking before it while Uzzah went beside the ark. Other men named Ahio appear among the families of Benjamin.
Historical Background
The name may mean “brotherly,” “his brother,” or “brother of Yahweh.” The Ahio connected with the ark may have been a descendant of Abinadab rather than his immediate son.
Scripture References
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Brotherly. (1.) One of the sons of Beriah (1 Chr. 8:14). (2.) One of the sons of Jehiel the Gibeonite (1 Chr. 8:31; 9:37). (3.) One of the sons of Abinadab the Levite. While Uzzah went by the side of the ark, he walked before it guiding the oxen which drew the cart on which it was carried, after having brought it from his father’s house in Gibeah (1 Chr. 13:7; 2 Sam. 6:3, 4).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(brotherly).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>a-hi'-o ('achyo, variously explained as "his brother," "brotherly," "brother of Yahweh," "my brother is Yah"): Proper names containing a similar form of the name of Yahweh are found on the ostraca recently exhumed at Samaria. The word is always treated as a common noun in the ordinary Greek copies, being rendered either "brother" or "brothers," or "his brother" or "his brothers"; but this is probably to be taken as an instance of the relative inferiority of the Greek text as compared with the Massoretic Text. See OSTRACA.</p><p>(1) One of the sons of Beriah, the son of Elpaal, the son of Shaharaim and Hushim, reckoned among the families of Benjamin (1Ch 8:14). Beriah and Shema are described as `ancestral heads' "of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath."</p><p>(2) A descendant of Jeiel ("the father of Gibeon") and his wife Maacah (1Ch 8:31; 9:37). King Saul apparently came from the same family (1Ch 8:30,33; 9:39).</p><p>(3) One of the men who drove the new cart when David first attempted to bring the ark from the house of Abinadab to Jerusalem (2Sa 6:3,4; 1Ch 13:7). In Samuel Uzza and Ahio are called sons of Abinadab. By the most natural understanding of the Biblical data about 100 years had elapsed since the ark was brought to the house; they were sons of that Abinadab in the sense of being his descendants. Whether he had a successor of the same name living in David's time is a matter of conjecture.</p><p>Willis J. Beecher</p>