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Hebrew Modern Translation

מלכים א 1:3

ויבקשו נערה יפה בכל גבול ישראל וימצאו את אבישג השונמית ויבאו אתה למלך׃

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abishag;   David;   Diplomacy;   Shunammite;   Shunem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nathan;   Shunem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abishag;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shunammite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abishag;   Shunem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abishag;   Shunem;   Shunem, Shunammites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Adonijah;   Firstborn;   Israel;   Nathan;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abishag ;   Coast;   Shunammite ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Shunem;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Adonijah;   David;   Shunem;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ab'ishag,;   Adoni'jah;   Da'vid;   Shu'nammite, the,;   Shu'nem;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Abishag;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Shunammite;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abishag;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Palestine;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
ויבקשו נערה יפה בכל גבול ישראל וימצאו את אבישג השונמית ויבאו אתה למלך
Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וַיְבַקְשׁוּ֙ נַעֲרָ֣ה יָפָ֔ה בְּכֹ֖ל גְּב֣וּל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ אֶת־אֲבִישַׁג֙ הַשּׁ֣וּנַמִּ֔ית וַיָּבִ֥אוּ אֹתָ֖הּ לַמֶּֽלֶךְ ׃
Westminster Leningrad Codex
וַיְבַקְשׁוּ נַעֲרָה יָפָה בְּכֹל גְּבוּל יִשְׂרָאֵל וַֽיִּמְצְאוּ אֶת־אֲבִישַׁג הַשּׁוּנַמִּית וַיָּבִאוּ אֹתָהּ לַמֶּֽלֶךְ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

So: Esther 2:2, Esther 2:4

Abishag: 1 Kings 2:17-25

Shunammite: Joshua 19:18, 1 Samuel 28:4, 2 Kings 4:8, 2 Kings 4:25

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel,.... Not only a damsel, but a beautiful one, that she might be the more acceptable to the king; who otherwise, if deformed and ugly, would not have endured her in his sight, or received at her hands, and much less suffered her to lie in his bosom:

and found Abishag a Shunammite; a native of the city Shunem, a city in the tribe of Issachar, Joshua 19:18;

and brought her to the king; for his approbation of her, and to make her his concubine wife, as he did.


 
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