Strong's #52: 'Abiyshay (pronounced ab-ee-shah'ee)

or (shorter) Abshay {ab-shah'ee}; from 1 and 7862; father of a gift (i.e. probably generous); Abishai, an Israelite:--Abishai.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׁ

'ăbı̂yshay / 'abshay

Abishai = "my father is Jesse" or "my father is a gift"

1) grandson of Jesse, nephew of David via his sister Zeruiah, brother of Joab

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H1 and H7862

Usage:

This word is used 25 times:

 

1 Samuel 26:6: "Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab,"
1 Samuel 26:6: "Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with"
1 Samuel 26:7: "So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold,"
1 Samuel 26:8: "Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered"
1 Samuel 26:9: "And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for"
2 Samuel 2:18: "sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel was as light of foot"
2 Samuel 2:24: "Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down"
2 Samuel 3:30: "So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain"
2 Samuel 10:10: "of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array the children"
2 Samuel 10:14: "were fled, then fled Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab"
2 Samuel 16:9: "Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why"
2 Samuel 16:11: "And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants,"
2 Samuel 18:2: "of Joab, under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother,"
2 Samuel 18:5: "commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, for my sake with the young man,"
2 Samuel 18:12: "in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none"
2 Samuel 19:21: " But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei"
2 Samuel 20:6: "And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son"
2 Samuel 20:10: "him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba"
2 Samuel 21:17: " But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine,"
2 Samuel 23:18: " And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three."
1 Chronicles 2:16: "and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, three."
1 Chronicles 11:20: " And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three:"
1 Chronicles 18:12: " Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley"
1 Chronicles 19:11: "of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array the children"
1 Chronicles 19:15: "fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city."