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# אֲבִישַׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H52

**Abishai** — used 25 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

Abishai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/52/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִישַׁי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/52/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my father is Jesse; LagBN 75 thinks from אֲבֶן (= בֶּן) + ישׁי cf. 𝔊 Ἀβεσσα\[ι\] 1 S 26:6)—א׳ 1 S 26:6(×2) + 17 times 1 & 2 S = אַבְשַׁי 2 S 10:10 + 5 times 1 Ch.—grandson of Jesse; son of Zeruiah & brother of Joab 1 S 26:6(×2), 7, 8, 9 2 S 2:18, 24 + 20:6 (where read יואב 𝔖 Th We Dr) + 12 times 2 S + 20:7 (where insert אבישׁי 𝔊 We Dr) + 5 times 1 Ch.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: Abishai (21); of Abishai (3); \[were\] Abshai (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 18:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.12/#tree)

וְאַבְשַׁ֣י בֶּן־צְרוּיָ֗ה הִכָּ֤ה אֶת־אֱדוֹם֙ בְּגֵ֣יא הַמֶּ֔לַח גֵ֣יא הַמֶּ֔לַח שְׁמוֹנָ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר אָֽלֶף׃

*Word for word:* and Abishai the.son of.Zeruiah he.struck.down (et) Edom in the.Valley of.Salt eight- teen thousand

*JPS 1917:* Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah smote of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.

[1 Chronicles 2:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.16/#tree)

וְאַחְיוֹתֵיהֶ֖ם צְרוּיָ֣ה וַאֲבִיגָ֑יִל וּבְנֵ֣י צְרוּיָ֗ה אַבְשַׁ֛י וְיוֹאָ֥ב וַעֲשָׂה־אֵ֖לעֲשָׂה־אֵ֖ל שְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and sisters their \[were\].Zeruiah and Abigail and the.sons of.Zeruiah \[were\].Abshai and Joab and Asahel Asahel three

*JPS 1917:* And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/52.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/52/): 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).