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# אֲבִישַׁג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H49

**Abishag** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Abishag [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/49/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִישַׁג: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/49/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (my father is a wanderer (שׁגג)?) a handmaid of David 1 K 1:3, 15; 2:17, 21, 22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abishag (5).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 2:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.21/#tree)

וַתֹּ֕אמֶר יֻתַּ֖ן אֶת־אֲבִישַׁ֣ג הַשֻּׁנַמִּ֑ית לַאֲדֹנִיָּ֥הוּ אָחִ֖יךָ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and she.said let.it.be.given (et) Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah brother your to a.wife

*JPS 1917:* And she said: 'Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.'

[1 Kings 1:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.1.3/#tree)

וַיְבַקְשׁוּ֙ נַעֲרָ֣ה יָפָ֔ה בְּכֹ֖ל גְּב֣וּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ אֶת־אֲבִישַׁג֙ הַשּׁ֣וּנַמִּ֔ית וַיָּבִ֥אוּ אֹתָ֖הּ לַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and they.sought a.young.woman beautiful in all the.territory of.Israel and they.found (et) Abishag the Shunammite and they.brought her to the king

*JPS 1917:* So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/49.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/49/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).