ICHABOD ĭk’ ə bŏd (אִֽי־כָבﯴד׃֙, where is the glory? or no glory). The name given to the son of Phineas, one of Eli’s two evil sons, by his mother when she bore him on her deathbed. News arrived from the battle of Aphek that the Philistines had killed both Hophni and Phineas and captured the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. When their father heard this tragic news, he fell backward and broke his neck. Phineas’ wife, upon hearing that her husband and father-in-law had died and that the Ark of the Covenant was gone, immediately went into labor. In her despondency she named the child Ichabod, saying “the glory is departed from Israel” (1 Sam 4:19ff.). Ichabod later appears in 1 Samuel 14:3 with his brother’s son, called here Ahiah and elsewhere Ahimelek, the man who stayed with Saul and his 600 men at Gibeah.