Abiezer

Ay´bi-ee´zuhr; Heb., “my father is help”

1 A son of Manasseh who received an inheritance in Canaan (Josh 17:2) and who headed the clan of the Abiezerites, to which Gideon belonged (Judg 6:11). The name also occurs as Iezer (Num 26:30). 2 A Benjaminite from Anathoth; one of David’s fighting men who was given command of a division of twenty-four thousand men (2Sam 23:27; 1Chr 27:12). 3 A Manassite, the son of Gilead’s sister (1Chr 7:18).