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# אַבְשָׁלֹום

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H53

**Abishalom** — used 109 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

Abishalom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/53/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִישָׁלוֹם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/53/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my father is peace; according to LagBN 75 = (בֶּן)אֲבֶן + שָׁלֹם, cf. 𝔊 Ἀβεσσαλωμ)—א׳ †1 K 15:2, 10 = אַבְשָׁלוֹם 2 S 3:3 +, 2 Ch 11:20, 21, אַבְשָׁלֹם 2 S 13:4 +— Rehob.’s father-in-law †1 K 15:2, 10 2 Ch 11:20, 21. 3rd son of Dvd 2 S 3:3; 13:1 + 90 times 2 S (insert 2 S 13:27 𝔊 Th We cf. Dr; del. v 38 Dr cf. We), + †1 K 1:6; 2:7, 2 1 Ch 3:2 ψ 3:1.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Absalom (95); of Absalom (13); O Absalom (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 17:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.26/#tree)

וַיִּ֤חַן יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאַבְשָׁלֹ֔ם אֶ֖רֶץ הַגִּלְעָֽד׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.encamped Israel and Absalom the.land of.(the) Gilead

*JPS 1917:* And Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

[2 Samuel 13:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.38/#tree)

וְאַבְשָׁל֥וֹם בָּרַ֖ח וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ גְּשׁ֑וּר וַיְהִי־שָׁ֖ם שָׁלֹ֥שׁ שָׁנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and Absalom he.fled and he.went Geshur and he.was there three years

*JPS 1917:* So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/53.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/53/): 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).