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Strong's #7027 - קִישׁ

Transliteration
Qîysh
Phonetics
keesh
Origin
from (H6983)
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Masculine
TWOT
None
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Kish = “bent”

1) a Benjamite of the family of Matri, father of king Saul

2) an ancestor of Mordecai

3) son of Gibeon and brother of Abdon, Zur, Baal, Ner, Nadab, Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth; uncle of Kish the father of king Saul

4) a Merarite Levite, son of Mahli and grandson of Merari the progenitor of the family

5) a Merarite Levite, son of Abdi in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (19)
1 Samuel 6
2 Samuel 1
1 Chronicles 10
2 Chronicles 1
Esther 1
NAS (21)
1 Samuel 6
2 Samuel 1
1 Chronicles 12
2 Chronicles 1
Esther 1
HCS (21)
1 Samuel 6
2 Samuel 1
1 Chronicles 12
2 Chronicles 1
Esther 1
BSB (21)
1 Samuel 6
2 Samuel 1
1 Chronicles 12
2 Chronicles 1
Esther 1
ESV (21)
1 Samuel 6
2 Samuel 1
1 Chronicles 12
2 Chronicles 1
Esther 1
WEB (21)
1 Samuel 6
2 Samuel 1
1 Chronicles 12
2 Chronicles 1
Esther 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 קִישׁ proper name, masculine (probably *קַיְשְׁ Arabic Aramaic קישׁא ZMG xi (1896), 167 originally proper name, of deity as Arabic which now only in proper name, of person We Heid. 2. 67); — K(ε)ις:

1 father of Saul 1 Samuel 9:1,3(twice in verse); 1 Samuel 10:11,21; 1 Samuel 14:51; 2 Samuel 21:14; 1 Chronicles 8:30,33 (where read אַבְנֵר Be Kau Kit), 1 Chronicles 8:33 = 1 Chronicles 9:36,39 (read as above), 1 Chronicles 9:39; 1 Chronicles 12:1; 1 Chronicles 26:28.

2 Levites :

a. 1 Chronicles 23:21,22; 1 Chronicles 24:29 (twice in verse).

b. 2 Chronicles 29:12.

3 ancestor of Mordecai Esther 2:5 (Κεισαίου).


Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

קִישׁ (“snaring,” from the root קוֹשׁ [“or i.q. קֶשֶׁת”]), [Kish], pr.n. m.

(1) of the father of Saul, 1 Samuel 9:1, 14:51 1 Chronicles 8:33.

(2)  1 Chronicles 8:30, 9:36.

(3)  1 Chronicles 23:21, 22 1 Chronicles 23:22, 24:29 (4)  2 Chronicles 29:12.

(5)  Esther 2:5.


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List of Word Forms
וְקִ֔ישׁ וְקִ֖ישׁ וְקִ֧ישׁ וְקִֽישׁ׃ וקיש וקיש׃ לְקִ֖ישׁ לקיש קִ֑ישׁ קִ֔ישׁ קִ֖ישׁ קִ֚ישׁ קִ֜ישׁ קִ֣ישׁ קִ֥ישׁ קיש kish lə·qîš leKish ləqîš qîš veKish wə·qîš wəqîš
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