a.chi.tuv is a personal name used to identify men within priestly and ancestral family lines.

The occurrences use this proper name chiefly in son-of chains and priestly identifications: it marks a person as the father or ancestor of figures such as Ahijah, Ahimelech, Zadok, Meraioth, and others. It also occurs in direct speech when Saul calls someone “son of Ahitub.”

1. Personal name in family and priestly identification · dominant

   The form is tagged Noun · Proper in every cited occurrence. In 1 Samuel 14:3 the APB renders Ahijah as “son of Ahitub” within a priestly family notice, while 1 Samuel 22:11 identifies Ahimelech in the same way; 1 Chronicles 9:11 and Nehemiah 11:11 place the name within ancestry leading to a leader of the house of God. In 1 Samuel 22:12 the APB renders Saul's address, “Hear me, son of Ahitub.”

   1 Samuel 14:31 Samuel 22:111 Samuel 22:121 Chronicles 9:112 Samuel 8:17Nehemiah 11:11

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB presents the name chiefly in phrases such as “son of Ahitub” and in genealogical chains. In 1 Samuel 22:12 it retains that identifying relationship in Saul's address; the paraphrase is not word-aligned.