ʼĂbîyshay — H52

Definition

masculine proper noun

Abishai, an Israelite

1. Abishai = "my father is Jesse" or "my father is a gift"
2. grandson of Jesse, nephew of David via his sister Zeruiah, brother of Joab

Usually translated as

Abishai

Origin

or (shorter) ʼAbshay ; from H1 and H7862; father of a gift (i.e. probably generous)

• Derived from ʼâb (H1)
• Derived from Shay (H7862)

Occurrences

ʼĂbîyshay occurs 25 times in 24 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (4), 2 Samuel (15), 1 Chronicles (5)

• 1 Samuel 26:6 — Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai (אֲבִישַׁ֨י) 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.
• 1 Samuel 26:6 — 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 (אֲבִישַׁ֔י) said, I will go down with thee.
• 1 Samuel 26:7 — So David and Abishai (וַאֲבִישַׁ֥י) 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 26:8 — Then said Abishai (אֲבִישַׁי֙) 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 26:9 — And David said to Abishai (אֲבִישַׁ֖י), Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?
• 2 Samuel 2:18 — And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai (וַאֲבִישַׁ֖י), and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
• 2 Samuel 2:24 — Joab also and Abishai (וַאֲבִישַׁ֖י) 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 3:30 — So Joab and Abishai (וַאֲבִישַׁ֣י) his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
• 2 Samuel 10:10 — And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai (אַבְשַׁ֣י) his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon.
• 2 Samuel 10:14 — And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai (אֲבִישַׁ֔י), and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
• 2 Samuel 16:9 — Then said Abishai (אֲבִישַׁ֤י) the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
• 2 Samuel 16:11 — And David said to Abishai (אֲבִישַׁי֙), and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
• 2 Samuel 18:2 — And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai (אֲבִישַׁ֤י) the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.
• 2 Samuel 18:5 — And the king commanded Joab and Abishai (אֲבִישַׁ֤י) and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.
• 2 Samuel 18:12 — And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai (אֲבִישַׁ֤י) and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
• 2 Samuel 19:21 — But Abishai (אֲבִישַׁ֤י) the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?
• 2 Samuel 20:6 — And David said to Abishai (אֲבִישַׁ֔י), Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
• 2 Samuel 20:10 — But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai (וַאֲבִישַׁ֣י) his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
• 2 Samuel 21:17 — But Abishai (אֲבִישַׁ֣י) the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
• 2 Samuel 23:18 — And Abishai (וַאֲבִישַׁ֞י), the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
• 1 Chronicles 2:16 — Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai (אַבְשַׁ֛י), and Joab, and Asahel, three.
• 1 Chronicles 11:20 — And Abishai (וְאַבְשַׁ֣י) the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.
• 1 Chronicles 18:12 — Moreover Abishai (וְאַבְשַׁ֣י) the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.
• 1 Chronicles 19:11 — And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai (אַבְשַׁ֣י) his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
• 1 Chronicles 19:15 — And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai (אַבְשַׁ֣י) his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.