Ichabod (Heb. 'L'ābhōdh "Without glory")

ICHABOD (Hebr. 'l'ābhōdh “without glory”). - Son of Phinees and Eli (v.).

In an encounter with the Philistines, ark (v.) of the covenant was also captured (I Sam. 4,11), the two brothers Ophni and Phinees died, as did their aged father Eli

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(from A. Grabar, L'art byzantin, Paris 1938, pl. 5)
ICONS — S. Eudossia. I. in coloured stones inlaid in marble (13th–14th cent., according to A. Grabar; 10th cent., according to S. Bettini). Istanbul, Museum, from S. Maria Panacrantos.

died upon hearing the news of the catastrophe. Amid so much tragedy, the wife of Phinees gave birth to a child, to whom she gave the name I., “as if to say: The glory of Israel has departed,” alluding to the capture of the ark of God, and to her brother-in-law and her husband” (ibid. 4,21). Nothing else is known of this child with the symbolic name. Angelo Penna

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“ICHABOD (EBR. 'L'ĀBHŌDH «SENZA GLORIA»).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 892. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/ichabod-ebr-l-abhodh-senza-gloria.