Achbor ( ''ʿAḵbōr'') is a name that means "gnawing" and is, by extension, used as the word for " mouse". There are at least two persons by this name in the
1 Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles ( he, דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament. Chronicles is the final book of the Hebrew Bible, concluding the third sect ...
Achbor is the father of
Baal-hanan Baal-hanan (Hebrew: בַּעַל חָנָן / בָּעַל חָנָן, Standard ''Baʿal Ḥanan'' Tiberian ''Baʿal Ḥānān'' / ''Bāʿal Ḥānān'') means "Baal has been gracious". There are two men by this name in the Hebrew Bible. ...
, a king of
Edom
Edom (; Edomite: ; he, אֱדוֹם , lit.: "red"; Akkadian: , ; Ancient Egyptian: ) was an ancient kingdom in Transjordan, located between Moab to the northeast, the Arabah to the west, and the Arabian Desert to the south and east.N ...
, but is not actually listed as being king himself although some commentaries assume that he was. See Genesis 36:38; 1 Chronicles 1:49.
Achbor of Judah
In the Books of Kings Achbor, son of Michaiah, is one of Josiah's officers, and one of the five men sent to the prophetess
Huldah
Huldah ( he, חֻלְדָּה ''Ḥuldā'') was a prophet mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in and . According to the Bible, she was a prophetess. After the discovery of a book of the Law during renovations at Solomon's Temple, on the order of King ...
to inquire regarding the book of the law newly discovered in the
Temple in Jerusalem
The Temple in Jerusalem, or alternatively the Holy Temple (; , ), refers to the two now-destroyed religious structures that served as the central places of worship for Israelites and Jews on the modern-day Temple Mount in the Old City of Jeru ...
(2 Kings 22:12, 14). This Achbor is also called Abdon (2 Chronicles 34:20).
This may be the same Achbor who is mentioned as the father of Elnathan in the Book of Jeremiah 26:20–23, and who lived in the reign of King
Jehoiakim
Jehoiakim, also sometimes spelled Jehoikim; la, Joakim was the eighteenth and antepenultimate king of Judah from 609 to 598 BC. He was the second son of king Josiah () and Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. His birth name was Eliakim.; ...