ahab in English
noun
king of Israel (c 875-853 BC), husband of Jezebel (Biblical); tragic hero of Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick"
Use "ahab" in a sentence
1. See you around, Ahab.
2. Elijah’s message against Ahab (17-26)
3. Ahab takes an interest in Pip.
4. 24 Starbuck and Ahab almost communicate with each other as the first mate pleads with Ahab to repudiate this vengeful mission.
5. To see that wicked King Ahab surrounded himself with false prophets and that Ahab believed their blatant lies must have tormented Micaiah’s righteous soul.
6. Elijah went on to pronounce God’s sentence on Ahab.
7. Wounded in battle, Ahab bled to death in his chariot.
8. He sent the prophet Elijah to give Ahab a message.
9. Ahab and his wife, Jezebel, were worshipping the false god Baal.
10. They beg Ahab to turn the ship about and sail homeward.
11. Ahab, bedecked in royal finery, was a greedy, weak-willed apostate.
12. Ahab ordered that Micaiah be thrown into prison with reduced rations.
13. Despite the prophet Elijah’s frank warnings, Ahab did nothing to stop her.
14. Ahab, the king of Israel, was not worshipping the true God, Jehovah.
15. Ahab wanted this vineyard, and he tried to buy it from Naboth.
16. Did Jehovah notice that Ahab made that public display of his sadness?
17. King Ahab of ancient Israel once wanted a vineyard adjacent to his palace.
18. And the whole house of Ahab must perish.’” —2 Ki. 9:6-8.
19. Now King Ahab was far behind him, and the open road lay before him.
20. Perhaps he wondered how Ahab would respond to the dramatic events that were unfolding.
21. For example, he formed a marriage alliance with wicked King Ahab of the northern kingdom.
22. 15 Jeremiah recorded the account about Jezebel, the wicked wife of King Ahab of Samaria.
23. 2 Thus, finally, Ahab recognizes the monomania of his pursuit, but can do nothing about it.
24. As a metaphor for the modern mountaineer, the life of Captain Ahab has some disturbing parallels. Sentencedict.com
25. Immediately above walls built by Solomon at Megiddo and Hazor, other walls were constructed, possibly by Ahab.
26. He sealed the heavens against the wicked king Ahab and fled to a cave to seek the Lord:
27. The earlier humanitarian Ahab no longer concerns himself with humanity but devotes himself to his own egocentric desires.
28. Charioting toward the red hungry sea under Ahab my marrow boiled over as David submerged in Bathsheba’s briny hair
29. The sighting of the whale, Ahab cries, was meant for him, and then he is lowered to the deck.
30. Articulateness, intelligence, and self-awareness present in Ahab and AHAB AND ISHMAEL AT WAR: THE PRESENCE OF MOBY-DICK IN THE NAKED AND THE DEAD But when she spoke she was riveting, her salient intelligence and Articulateness were a force to be reckoned with.
31. The carpenter and blacksmith hurriedly fashion a new one, and Ahab has a new harpoon fashioned from the finest iron.
32. 6 The monomania reminiscent of Captain Ahab in Moby Dick is present in Mark Zuckerberg; the same intensity that yields successful entrepreneurs.
33. The final accounting with the house of Ahab was at the hands of Jehu, whom Jehovah anointed for this work of execution.
34. Arabs: From the song "Ahab, the A-rab" Aladdin: Arabs: One Thousand and One Nights: Alphabet: Arabs: Many names seem to use every letter of the alphabet
35. (Jg 3:12-30) Mesha, king of Moab, revolted against Israelite domination many centuries later, “as soon as Ahab died,” according to the Bible account at 2 Kings 3:4, 5.
36. Ahab Attacks the Arameans - A little while later, King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered an army of cavalry and chariots in a military confederacy with 32 kings, invaded Samaria, and set up siege encampments there
37. The Bible gives many other bad examples of Coveting, such as when David coveted Bathsheba, his neighbor’s wife (2 Samuel 11:1-4) and Ahab coveted his neighbor Naboth’s vineyard (1 Kings 21:1-6)
38. Baal worship served as a problem to Israel throughout the period of the judges ( Judges 3:7) and was prevalent in the reign of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel ( 1 Kings 16:31-33 )
39. (Proverbs 16:25) King Ahab wanted to hear only what pleased him; his servants even asked the prophet Micaiah to let his word become “like the word of one of them [Ahab’s flattering prophets], and you must speak good.”
40. In contrast to this dismissive tone, De Vries (1985:219) refers to this episode and the consequent meeting between Elijah and Ahab as a meeting between ―the representative of institutional power – the Baalizing king and the representative of spiritual power – the humble, spirit-filled prophet‖ (italics mine).
41. In an attempt to define rhetorical discourse, the paper examines the speeches of Ahab, the main character from Herman Melville's book, "Moby-Dick." The paper first determines if Ahab's speeches actually fall into the category of rhetorical discourse by examining his major speeches, and then ascertains whether his speeches are bombs (successful speeches) or Bombastics (unsuccessful …
42. God is under no covenant obligation to hear sinners; they can challenge no such favour upon the account of any promise: but God, out of the Aboundings of his goodness, may hear them, as he heard Ahab and others; he may hear them as his creatures crying in their misery, though he hears them not as children, or upon the account of any covenant.