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Abia
- my father is the Lord, the
Greek
form of Abijah, or
Abijam
(Matt. 1:7), instead of Abiah (1 Chr. 7:8). In
Luke
1:5, the name refers to the head of the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which
David
divided the priests (1 Chr. 24:10).
From
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)