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title: קִישׁ — Kish · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִישׁ (7027), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 21 times: Kish. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קִישׁ

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«קִישׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Kish** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 21 times · **Key:** 7027 · **BDB:** קִישׁ

### Glosses

Kish (12); of.Kish (8); \[was\].Kish (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Kish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7027/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7027/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (prob. \*קַיְשְׁ, Arabic قَيْس, Aramaic קישׁא, NöZMG xi (1886), 167; orig. n.pr.dei as Arabic قيس, wh. now only in n.pr. pers. WeHeid. 2, 67);—Κ(ε)ις: father of Saul 1 S 9:1, 3(×2): 10:11, 21; 14:51; 2 S 21:14; 1 Ch 8:30, 33 (where read אַבְנֵר, Be Kau Kit), v 33 = 9:36, 39 (read as above), v 39; 12:1; 26:28. Levites; 1 Ch 23:21, 22; 24:29(×2). 2 Ch 29:12. ancestor of Mordecai Est 2:5 (Κεισαίου).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קִישׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7027/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 24:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.29/)

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לְקִ֖ישׁ בְּנֵי־קִ֥ישׁ יְרַחְמְאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* for Kish the.sons of.Kish \[were\].Jerahmeel

*JPS 1917:* Of Kish: the sons of Kish, Jerahmeel.

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[1 Samuel 14:51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.14.51/)

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וְקִ֧ישׁ אֲבִֽי־שָׁא֛וּל וְנֵ֥ר אֲבִֽי־אַבְנֵ֖ר בֶּן־אֲבִיאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and Kish \[was\].the.father of.Saul and Ner the.father of.Abner \[was\].the.son of.Abiel

*JPS 1917:* And Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

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