Abishai
אֲבִישַׁיStrong’s H0052avishay (a-vi-shay)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avishay is the Hebrew word usually translated “abishai” and “abshai”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.26.6 and Zeruiah (H6870)
How it's translated
- abishai 16
- and abishai 8
- abshai 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 15
- 1 Chronicles 5
- 1 Samuel 4
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 26:7So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
- 1 Samuel 26:8Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
- 1 Samuel 26:9And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?
- 2 Samuel 2:18And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
- 2 Samuel 2:24Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
- 2 Samuel 3:30So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲבִישַׁי avishay · Abishai
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.26.6 and Zeruiah (H6870); brother of: Joab (H3097) and Asahel (H6214) § Abishai = "my father is Jesse" or "my father is a gift" grandson of Jesse, nephew of David via his sister Zeruiah, brother of Joab
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.