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Ichabod [Heb.,=inglorious], in the Bible, son of Phinehas and grandson of the High Priest Eli. He was born at the hour of the Ark's capture by the Philistines and was named to commemorate the unfortunate event.

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Ichabod The name chosen by Eli's daughter-in-law for her son as she died in childbirth on hearing of the capture of the Ark of God (1 Sam. 4: 21). Ichabod is Hebrew for ‘the glory has departed’.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Â© The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Ichabod in the Bible, the name given by Eli's daughter-in-law to her son, used as an expression of regret, in allusion to 1 Samuel (she named the child Ichabod, saying, ‘the glory is departed from Israel’), in the account of the capture of the Ark of the Covenant of God by the Philistines.

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