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# קִישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7027

**Kish** — used 21 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

Kish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7027/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִישׁ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7027/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (prob. \*קַיְשְׁ, Arabic قَيْس, Aramaic קישׁא, NöZMG xi (1886), 167; orig. n.pr.dei as Arabic قيس, wh. now only in n.pr. pers. WeHeid. 2, 67);—Κ(ε)ις: father of Saul 1 S 9:1, 3(×2): 10:11, 21; 14:51; 2 S 21:14; 1 Ch 8:30, 33 (where read אַבְנֵר, Be Kau Kit), v 33 = 9:36, 39 (read as above), v 39; 12:1; 26:28. Levites; 1 Ch 23:21, 22; 24:29(×2). 2 Ch 29:12. ancestor of Mordecai Est 2:5 (Κεισαίου).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kish (12); of Kish (8); \[was\] Kish (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 24:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.29/#tree)

לְקִ֖ישׁ בְּנֵי־קִ֥ישׁ יְרַחְמְאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* for Kish the.sons of.Kish \[were\].Jerahmeel

*JPS 1917:* Of Kish: the sons of Kish, Jerahmeel.

[1 Samuel 14:51](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.51/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.51/#tree)

וְקִ֧ישׁ אֲבִֽי־שָׁא֛וּל וְנֵ֥ר אֲבִֽי־אַבְנֵ֖ר בֶּן־אֲבִיאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and Kish \[was\].the.father of.Saul and Ner the.father of.Abner \[was\].the.son of.Abiel

*JPS 1917:* And Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7027.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7027/): 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).