<strong>AHIO</strong> (a-hī'ō, Heb. <em>’ahyô, brotherly</em>)<br /><br />

Son of Abinadab. He and his brother Uzzah accompanied the ark of God from Gibeah on David’s first attempt to remove it to Jerusalem (<bibleref ref="2Sam.6.2-2Sam.6.22">2Sam.6.2-2Sam.6.22</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="1Chr.13.1-1Chr.13.14">1Chr.13.1-1Chr.13.14</bibleref>). Ahio walked before, guiding the oxen that drew the cart, while Uzzah walked alongside.A Benjamite (<bibleref ref="1Chr.8.14">1Chr.8.14</bibleref>).A Gibeonite, son of Jehiel (<bibleref ref="1Chr.8.31">1Chr.8.31</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="1Chr.9.37">1Chr.9.37</bibleref>).<br /><br />

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<strong>AHIO</strong> <strong>ə hī’ ō</strong> (<span class="hebrew">אַחְיֹ֗ו</span>, prob. <em>brotherly</em>). 1. Son of Abinadab and brother of Uzza (<bibleref ref="2Sam.6.3">2 Sam 6:3</bibleref>, <bibleref ref="2Sam.6.4">4</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="1Chr.13.7">1 Chron 13:7</bibleref>). He went before the cart that carried the Ark from the house of Abinadab to Jerusalem.<br /><br />

2. A Benjamite; son of Elpaal (<bibleref ref="1Chr.8.14">1 Chron 8:14</bibleref>).

3. A son of Jeiel; a brother of Kish, the father of Saul (<bibleref ref="1Chr.8.31">8:31</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="1Chr.9.37">9:37</bibleref>).

<h2>International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)</h2>

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]].<br /><br />

(1) One of the sons of Beriah, the son of Elpaal, the son of Shaharaim and Hushim, reckoned among the families of Benjamin (<bibleref ref="1Chr.8.14">1Ch 8:14</bibleref>). Beriah and Shema are described as `ancestral heads’ "of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath."<br /><br />

(2) A descendant of Jeiel ("the father of Gibeon") and his wife Maacah (<bibleref ref="1Chr.8.31">1Ch 8:31</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="1Chr.9.37">9:37</bibleref>). King Saul apparently came from the same family (<bibleref ref="1Chr.8.30">1Ch 8:30</bibleref>,<bibleref ref="1Chr.8.33">33</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="1Chr.9.39">9:39</bibleref>).

(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 (<bibleref ref="2Sam.6.3">2Sa 6:3</bibleref>,<bibleref ref="2Sam.6.4">4</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="1Chr.13.7">1Ch 13:7</bibleref>). 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.<br /><br />

Willis J. Beecher<br /><br />