Definitions for Ahab

Ahab A·hab

Spelling: [ey-hab]
IPA: /ˈeɪ hæb/

Ahab is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Ahab (aabh).

Definitions for Ahab

noun

  1. a king of Israel and husband of Jezebel, reigned 874?–853? b.c. I Kings 16–22.
  2. captain of the ship Pequod and tragic hero of Melville's Moby Dick, obsessed with the pursuit of the white whale.

Examples for Ahab

Step and growl; growl and go—that's the word with Captain Ahab.

No more than this is told of the unavailing penance of Jehoram the son of Ahab.

Why did Ahab not dare to arrest Elijah at the door of Naboth's vineyard?

Individuals abstain from food to express contrition (Ahab) or to prepare for divine revelation (Moses).

I will not strip these men, thought Ahab, of all hopes of cash—aye, cash.

What a different story it would have been if only Ahab had listened to the teaching of God!

Ahab and Jezebel danced at his boots and made him look ridiculous.

GOP politicians on both the state and federal level attack legal abortion with an obsession rivaling Captain Ahab.

If we do what Ahab did, we have no right to despise him for doing what we do.

But at least he has not died like Ahab—a shameful and pitiable death.

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