Abishai: meaning of the name

Abishai in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Abishai in the Bible

• Abishai

  24 verses · first mentioned in 1 Samuel 26:6

Abishai in Scripture

“Abishai” appears in 24 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• 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 said, I will go down with thee.

• 1 Samuel 26:7

  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.

• 1 Samuel 26:8

  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.

• 1 Samuel 26:9

  And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?

• 2 Samuel 2:18

  And 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 2:24

  Joab 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 3:30

  So Joab and Abishai 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 his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon.