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# אֲבִישׁוּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H50

**Abishua** — 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

Abishua [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/50/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִישׁוּעַ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/50/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my father is rescue, or is opulence (cf. שׁוֹעַ rich Jb 34:19; also שׁוּעַ Jb 36:19? but v. שׁוע); LagBN 75 thinks from אֲבֶן (= בֶּן) + שׁוע cf. 𝔊 Ἀβεσσουε 1 Ch 8:4) a son of Phinehas 1 Ch 5:30, 31; 6:35 Ezr 7:5. a Benjamite, son of Bela 1 Ch 8:4.

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: Abishua (4); of Abishua (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.4/#tree)

וַאֲבִישׁ֥וּעַ וְנַעֲמָ֖ן וַאֲחֽוֹחַ׃

*Word for word:* and Abishua and Naaman and Ahoah

*JPS 1917:* and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah;

[1 Chronicles 5:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.30/#tree)

אֶלְעָזָר֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־פִּֽינְחָ֔ס פִּֽינְחָ֖ס הֹלִ֥יד אֶת־אֲבִישֽׁוּעַ׃

*Word for word:* Eleazar he.fathered (et) Phinehas Phinehas he.fathered (et) Abishua

*JPS 1917:* Eleazar begot Phinehas, Phinehas begot Abishua;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/50.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/50/): 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).