Bible Names

Abishua: meaning of the name

Abishua means “father of salvation.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Abishua in Hebrew and Greek

אֲבִישׁוּעַ H50

ʼĂbîyshûwaʻ (ab-ee-shoo'-ah) — Abishua, the name of two Israelites

from H1 (אָב) and H7771 (שׁוֹעַ); father of plenty (i.e. prosperous);

People named Abishua in the Bible

Abishua in Scripture

“Abishua” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:4

    Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:5

    And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:50

    And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

  • 1 Chronicles 8:4

    And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,

  • Ezra 7:5

    The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest: