1. Abner (personal name) — Proper masculine name meaning 'my father is Ner' (or 'my father is a lamp'). Refers to the son of Ner, Saul's cousin and commander of his army (1 Sam 14:50; 17:55; 26:14). After Saul's death, Abner installed Ish-bosheth as king over Israel (2 Sam 2:8) but later defected to David (2 Sam 3:6-21) and was killed by Joab (2 Sam 3:27). Also appears in genealogical lists (1 Chr 26:28; 27:21). Multilingual glosses consistently render as Abner/Avner/Aviner (arb: أَبْنِير, kor: 아브넬, hin: अबनेर). All five auto-clusters are simply different syntactic contexts (with prepositions, conjunctions) of the same personal name. 63×
AR["أبنيرَ","أبنيرُ","أَبْنَير","أَبْنِير","أَبْنِيرَ","أَبْنِيرُ","يا-أبنيرُ"]·ben["অবনের","অবনেরের","অব্নের","অব্নেরের"]·DE["Abner"]·EN["Abner","Avner"]·FR["Abner"]·heb["אבנר"]·HI["अबनेर","अबनेर-ने","अबनेर-से","अबनेरने","अब्नेर","अब्नेर-के","अब्नेर-ने"]·ID["Abner"]·IT["Abner"]·jav["Abnèr","Abnér"]·KO["아브넬","아브넬이","아브니르","아브니르가"]·PT["'Avner","Avner"]·RU["Авенир","Авениру","Авнер","Авнера","Авнером","Авнеру"]·ES["Abner","Avner"]·SW["Abneri"]·TR["Avner","Avner'e","Avner-e"]·urd["ابنیر","ابنیر-نے","ابنیر-کے"]
1 Sam 17:55, 1 Sam 17:55, 1 Sam 17:55, 1 Sam 17:57, 1 Sam 20:25, 1 Sam 26:5, 1 Sam 26:7, 1 Sam 26:14, 1 Sam 26:14, 1 Sam 26:14, 1 Sam 26:15, 2 Sam 2:12 (+38 more)
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
אֲבִינֵר n.pr.m. (my father is Nêr, or is a lamp cf. 2 S 21:17; according to LagBN 75 = אֲבֶן (= בֶּן) + נֵר = son of Ner; cf. 𝔊 Ἀβεννηρ)—so only 1 S 14:50, elsewhere אַבְנֵר—cousin of Saul, and captain of his host 1 S 14:50, 51; 17:55(×3) + 52 times 1 & 2 S + 1 K 2:5, 32 1 Ch 26:28; 27:21.