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
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H52 — אֲבִישַׁי
a.vi.shay · Abishai · Hebrew/Aramaic
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1 Samuel 26:6 · אֲבִישַׁ֨י · אֲבִישַׁ֔יAnd David answereth and saith unto Ahimelech the Hittite, and unto Abishai son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, ‘Who doth go down with me unto Saul, unto the camp?’ and Abishai saith, ‘I—I go down with thee.’1 Samuel 26:7 · וַאֲבִישַׁ֥י׀And David cometh—and Abishai—unto the people by night, and lo, Saul is lying sleeping in the path, and his spear struck into the earth at his pillow, and abner and the people are lying round about him.1 Samuel 26:8 · אֲבִישַׁי֙And Abishai saith unto David, ‘God hath shut up to-day thine enemy into thy hand; and, now, let me smite him, I pray thee, with a spear, even into the earth at once—and I do repeat it to him.’1 Samuel 26:9 · אֲבִישַׁ֖יAnd David saith unto Abishai, ‘Destroy him not; for who hath put forth his hand against the anointed of Jehovah, and been acquitted?’2 Samuel 2:18 · וַאֲבִישַׁ֖יAnd there are there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel, and Asahel is light on his feet, as one of the roes which are in the field,2 Samuel 2:24 · וַאֲבִישַׁ֖יAnd Joab and Abishai pursue after Abner, and the sun hath gone in, and they have come in unto the height of Ammah, which is on the front of Giah, the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.2 Samuel 3:30 · וַאֲבִישַׁ֣יAnd Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner because that he put to death Asahel their brother, in Gibeon, in battle.2 Samuel 10:10 · אַבְשַׁ֣יand the rest of the people he hath given into the hand of Abishai his brother, and setteth in array to meet the Bene-Ammon.2 Samuel 10:14 · אֲבִישַׁ֔יand the Bene-Ammon have seen that Aram hath fled, and they flee from the presence of Abishai, and go in to the city; and Joab turneth back from the Bene-Ammon, and cometh in to Jerusalem.2 Samuel 16:9 · אֲבִישַׁ֤יAnd Abishai son of Zeruiah saith unto the king, ‘Why doth this dead dog revile my lord the king? let me pass over, I pray thee, and I turn aside his head.’2 Samuel 16:11 · אֲבִישַׁי֙And David saith unto Abishai, and unto all his servants, ‘Lo, my son who came out of my bowels is seeking my life, and also surely now the Benjamite; leave him alone, and let him revile, for Jehovah hath said so to him;2 Samuel 18:2 · אֲבִישַׁ֤יand David sendeth the third of the people by the hand of Joab, and the third by the hand of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, and the third by the hand of Ittai the Gittite, and the king saith unto the people, ‘I certainly go out—I also—with you.’2 Samuel 18:5 · אֲבִישַׁ֤יand the king chargeth Joab, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, ‘Gently—for me, for the youth, for Absalom;’ and all the people heard in the king’s charging all the heads concerning Absalom.2 Samuel 18:12 · אֲבִישַׁ֤יAnd the man saith unto Joab, ‘Yea, though I am weighing on my hand a thousand silverlings, I do not put forth my hand unto the son of the king; for in our ears hath the king charged thee, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Observe ye who is against the youth—against Absalom;2 Samuel 19:21 · אֲבִישַׁ֤יAnd Abishai son of Zeruiah answereth and saith, ‘For this is not Shimei put to death—because he reviled the anointed of Jehovah?’2 Samuel 20:6 · אֲבִישַׁ֔יand David saith unto Abishai, ‘Now doth Sheba son of Bichri do evil to us more than Absalom; thou, take the servants of thy lord, and pursue after him, lest he have found for himself fenced cities, and delivered himself from our eye.’2 Samuel 20:10 · וַאֲבִישַׁ֣יand Amasa hath not been watchful of the sword that is in the hand of Joab, and he smiteth him with it unto the fifth rib, and sheddeth out his bowels to the earth, and he hath not repeated it to him, and he dieth; and Joab and Abishai his brother have pursued after Sheba son of Bichri.2 Samuel 21:17 · אֲבִישַׁ֣יand Abishai son of Zeruiah giveth help to him, and smiteth the Philistine, and putteth him to death; then swear the men of David to him, saying, ‘Thou dost not go out again with us to battle, nor quench the lamp of Israel.’2 Samuel 23:18 · וַאֲבִישַׁ֞יAnd Abishai brother of Joab, son of Zeruiah, he is head of three, and he is lifting up his spear against three hundred—wounded, and he hath a name among three.1 Chronicles 2:16 · אַבְשַׁ֛יand their sisters Zeruiah and Abigail. And sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asah-El—three.1 Chronicles 11:20 · וְאַבְשַׁ֣יAnd Abishai brother of Joab, he hath been head of the three: and he is lifting up his spear against three hundred—wounded, and hath a name among three.1 Chronicles 18:12 · וְאַבְשַׁ֣יAnd Abishai son of Zeruiah hath smitten Edom in the valley of salt—eighteen thousand,1 Chronicles 19:11 · אַבְשַׁ֣יand the remnant of the people he hath given into the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set in array to meet the sons of Ammon.1 Chronicles 19:15 · אַבְשַׁ֣יand the sons of Ammon have seen that Aram hath fled, and they flee—they also—from the face of Abishai his brother, and go in to the city. And Joab cometh in to Jerusalem.