Hebrew word · H49
אֲבִישַׁג
'avishag
Abishag
Appears 5 times in 5 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
A woman living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.1.3
§ Abishag = "my father is a wanderer"
David's beautiful young nurse
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
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Where it appears
1 Kings · 5
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1 Kings 1:3 אֲבִישַׁג֙ Abishag
Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.
Here: Her personal name. It begins with 'avi' ('my father'), but the meaning of the second part is uncertain (see textual notes). She is named, but in this chapter she never speaks.
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1 Kings 1:15 וַֽאֲבִישַׁג֙ and Abishag
So Bathsheba went to see the king in his bedroom. Since the king was very old, Abishag the Shunammite was serving him.
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1 Kings 2:17 אֲבִישַׁ֥ג Abishag
Adonijah replied, “Please speak to King Solomon, since he will not turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
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1 Kings 2:21 אֲבִישַׁ֣ג Abishag
So Bathsheba said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife.”
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1 Kings 2:22 אֲבִישַׁ֤ג Abishag
King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my older brother, you might as well request the kingdom for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
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