Bible Names

Kish: meaning of the name

Kish means “hard; difficult; straw; for age.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Kish in Hebrew and Greek

קִישׁ H7027

Qîysh (keesh) — Kish, the name of five Israelites

from H6983 (קוֹשׁ); a bow;

People named Kish in the Bible

Kish in Scripture

“Kish” appears in 17 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Samuel 9:1

    Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

  • 1 Samuel 9:3

    And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

  • 1 Samuel 10:11

    And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?

  • 1 Samuel 10:21

    When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.

  • 1 Samuel 14:51

    And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

  • 2 Samuel 21:14

    And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

  • 1 Chronicles 8:30

    And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,

  • 1 Chronicles 8:33

    And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi–shua, and Abinadab, and Esh–baal.