It also means an Ancestor, Originator, Inventor, Head, Chief or Ruler, Manager, Overseer, Master, Priest, Prophet.
[Hebrew: אבי] simply Father, when it is in construction, that is, when it precedes another word, and in English the preposition "of" is interposed, as [Hebrew: אבי-אל], Abi-Al, the Father of Al.
Also, the final Yōd means "my"; so that [Hebrew: אבי] by itself means "My father." [Hebrew: דויד אבי], David my father, 2 _Chron._ ii. 3.
[Hebrew: ו], (Vav) final is the possessive pronoun "his"; and [Hebrew: אביו], _Abiu_ (which we read "Abif") means "of my father's." Its full meaning, as connected with the name of Khūrūm, no doubt is, "formerly one of my father's servants," or "slaves."
The name of the Phoenician artificer is, in Samuel and Kings, [Hebrew: הירם] and [Hebrew: הירום]--[_2 Sam._ v. 11; 1 _Kings_ v. 15; 1 _Kings_ vii. 40]. In Chronicles it is [Hebrew: הורם], with the addition of [Hebrew: אבי] [_2 Chron._ ii. 12]; and of [Hebrew: אביו]. [_2 Chron._ iv. 16].
It is merely absurd to add the word "_Abif_" or "_Abiff_," as part of the name of the artificer. And it is almost as absurd to add the word "_Abi_," which was a _title_ and not part of the name. Joseph says [_Gen._ xlv. 8], "God has constituted me _'Ab l'Paraah_, as Father to Paraah, _i.e._, Vizier or Prime Minister." So Haman was called the Second Father of Artaxerxes; and when King Khūrūm used the phrase "Khūrūm Abi," he meant that the artificer he sent Schlomoh was the principal or chief workman in his line at Tsūr.
A medal copied by Montfaucon exhibits a female nursing a child, with ears of wheat in her hand, and the legend (Iao). She is seated on clouds, a star at her head, and three ears of wheat rising from an altar before her.
HORUS was the _mediator_, who was buried three days, was regenerated, and triumphed over the evil principle.
The word HERI, in Sanscrit, means _Shepherd_, as well as _Saviour_. CRISHNA is called _Heri_, as JESUS called Himself the _Good Shepherd_.
[Hebrew: הור], _Khūr_, means an aperture of a window, a cave, or the eye. Also it means white. In Syriac, [Symbols].
[Hebrew: הר] also means an opening, and noble, free-born, high-born. [Hebrew: הרם], KHURM means consecrated, devoted; in Æthiopic [Symbols] It is the name of a city, [_Josh_. xix. 38]; and of a man, [_Ezr_. ii. 32, x. 31; _Neh_. iii. 11].