Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10698 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

achabAhab

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 892 times in 297 works
Consistency: 99.1% (892 of 900)
Reach if approved: ~946 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ahab
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 900 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (892 changes in 297 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 892)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Vvyth ſoche holye prophetes and coūſellers (as yow are) now a dayes were Ioram, AchabAhab, Ochoſias, Ioachim, Sedechias, and other kynges more of Iſrael and Iuda deceyued, and brought …
With rule
… Vvyth ſoche holye prophetes and coūſellers (as yow are) now a dayes were Ioram, AchabAhab, Ochoſias, Ioachim, Sedechias, and other kynges more of Iſrael and Iuda deceyued, and brought …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be auditours of my iust defēses, graūting vnto me the same libertie, which AchabAhab a wicked king and Israel at that tyme a blynded people, grāted to Helias …
With rule
… to be auditours of my iust defēses, graūting vnto me the same libertie, which AchabAhab a wicked king and Israel at that tyme a blynded people, grāted to Helias …
John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Pharao did, and never to mourne for it; or to mourne for it as AchabAhab did, and not to forſake it. Iſrael, after their ſecond defeat, humbled themſelues, and …
With rule
… Pharao did, and never to mourne for it; or to mourne for it as AchabAhab did, and not to forſake it. Iſrael, after their ſecond defeat, humbled themſelues, and …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 272 · Open in the reader
Printed
AchabAhab and Zedechias falle prophetes were burnid. Iere. xxix.d
With rule
AchabAhab and Zedechias falle prophetes were burnid. Iere. xxix.d
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader
Printed
… tes? Agayne, what was the cause y^t many kynges, as Roboam, Ieroboam, Abia, Nadab, AchabAhab Ochozias Achas, Manasses, Amō, Ioiachim, Sedechias, Nabuchodonosor. &c. dyd y^t which was euell before …
With rule
… tes? Agayne, what was the cause y^t many kynges, as Roboam, Ieroboam, Abia, Nadab, AchabAhab Ochozias Achas, Manasses, Amō, Ioiachim, Sedechias, Nabuchodonosor. &c. dyd y^t which was euell before …
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſin, ſo nothing is more bitter then death: How did ſinne Tyrannize ouer Ammon, AchabAhab, Iudas, who could haue no reſt; but are ſicke till they haue performed moſt …
With rule
… ſin, ſo nothing is more bitter then death: How did ſinne Tyrannize ouer Ammon, AchabAhab, Iudas, who could haue no reſt; but are ſicke till they haue performed moſt …
Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sinners. Such then are here called sinners, who liue in open & notorious sinnes: as AchabAhab who sold himselfe to worke wickednesse: who accustomed to sinne, follow it with greedinesse.,
With rule
… sinners. Such then are here called sinners, who liue in open & notorious sinnes: as AchabAhab who sold himselfe to worke wickednesse: who accustomed to sinne, follow it with greedinesse.,
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… true prophet and chuſing of y^e falſe. The Lord ſendeth a ſtrōg eluſion & cauſeth AchabAhab to periſh by the counſel of y^e wicked & lying prohets which wold not be …
With rule
… true prophet and chuſing of y^e falſe. The Lord ſendeth a ſtrōg eluſion & cauſeth AchabAhab to periſh by the counſel of y^e wicked & lying prohets which wold not be …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

Printed
… his poſteritie vnto foure Generations; yet threatens the Lord to viſit that bloud of ACHABAHAB vpon the houſe of IEHV: for what cauſe? his heart was not vpright in …
With rule
… his poſteritie vnto foure Generations; yet threatens the Lord to viſit that bloud of ACHABAHAB vpon the houſe of IEHV: for what cauſe? his heart was not vpright in …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… iustice faileth, God with his vangeance makes ſupplie, that iniuſtice may not ſcape vnpuniſhed. ACHABAHAB and Iezabel had in Iſrael authoritie without controll; who ſhould puniſh their oppreſſion of …
With rule
… iustice faileth, God with his vangeance makes ſupplie, that iniuſtice may not ſcape vnpuniſhed. ACHABAHAB and Iezabel had in Iſrael authoritie without controll; who ſhould puniſh their oppreſſion of …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 289 · Open in the reader
Printed
Nabathe hiſtoria tempore vetus eſt, vſu quotidiana, ſaith Saint AMBROSE. Non vnus ACHABAHAB natus eſt, ſed quod peius eſt, quotidiè ACHABAHAB naſcitur, & nunquam huic ſoeculo moritur. Vncontrollable …
With rule
Nabathe hiſtoria tempore vetus eſt, vſu quotidiana, ſaith Saint AMBROSE. Non vnus ACHABAHAB natus eſt, ſed quod peius eſt, quotidiè ACHABAHAB naſcitur, & nunquam huic ſoeculo moritur. Vncontrollable …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 290 · Open in the reader
Printed
… quotidiana, ſaith Saint AMBROSE. Non vnus ACHABAHAB natus eſt, ſed quod peius eſt, quotidiè ACHABAHAB naſcitur, & nunquam huic ſoeculo moritur. Vncontrollable authoritie, how eaſily degenerates it to tyrannie, till …
With rule
… quotidiana, ſaith Saint AMBROSE. Non vnus ACHABAHAB natus eſt, ſed quod peius eſt, quotidiè ACHABAHAB naſcitur, & nunquam huic ſoeculo moritur. Vncontrollable authoritie, how eaſily degenerates it to tyrannie, till …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 290 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not kill. He that ſaid to IEHV, Hee ſhould destroy BAAL, the Idoll of ACHABAHAB, ſignified alſo diſlike of the Calues of IEROBOAM. If therefore he deſtroyed Baal, becauſe …
With rule
… not kill. He that ſaid to IEHV, Hee ſhould destroy BAAL, the Idoll of ACHABAHAB, ſignified alſo diſlike of the Calues of IEROBOAM. If therefore he deſtroyed Baal, becauſe …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 524 · Open in the reader

A Consent of Scripture A16964

Printed
… ſiſter to Ieruſalem Aholibah Ezeki. 23. Iudahs Kinges match to their ruine, vvith Iezabels houſe. ACHABAHAB of Omri 22 yeeres. CHIEL buildeth Iericho vvith the price of his eldeſt & youngeſt ſon …
With rule
… ſiſter to Ieruſalem Aholibah Ezeki. 23. Iudahs Kinges match to their ruine, vvith Iezabels houſe. ACHABAHAB of Omri 22 yeeres. CHIEL buildeth Iericho vvith the price of his eldeſt & youngeſt ſon …
Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… true patience, and hope of deliueraunce: ſo falſe Prophetes in Babylon reſiſted him: One ACHABAHAB and TZEDEKIAS, of whom he prophecyeth that Nabuchadnezar will make them an enſample, and …
With rule
… true patience, and hope of deliueraunce: ſo falſe Prophetes in Babylon reſiſted him: One ACHABAHAB and TZEDEKIAS, of whom he prophecyeth that Nabuchadnezar will make them an enſample, and …
Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader