52 - Abishay

Strong's Concordance

Original word: אֲבִישַׁי
Transliteration: Abishay
Definition (short): Abishai
Definition (full): Abishai -- |my father is Jesse|, an Israelite name

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from ab and shay
Definition: |my father is Jesse,| an Isr. name
NASB Translation: Abishai (21), Abshai (4).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Or (shorter) Abshay {ab-shah'ee}; from 'ab and shay; father of a gift (i.e. Probably generous); Abishai, an Israelite -- Abishai.

see HEBREW 'ab

see HEBREW shay

KJV: 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.
NASB: Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you."
KJV: So 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.
NASB: So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.
KJV: Then 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.
NASB: Then Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand; now therefore, please let me strike him with the spear to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time."
KJV: And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?
NASB: But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD'S anointed and be without guilt?"