Abishag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Abishag
From Late Latin Abisag, from Greek Abiság, from Hebrew Abhīsheg “My father strays”
Example Sentences
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A Robert Frost fan, Heigl named her production company "Abishag" after a lesser-known Frost character in the poem "Provide, Provide."
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2022
Aging beauty Abishag is the subject, whose story shows that while beauty and fame in Hollywood are fleeting, as with Kate and Tully, friendship sustains.
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2022
But after his establishment on the throne Adonijah requested the mother of Solomon, Bathsheba, to ask her son to give him for a wife the beautiful Abishag, the last wife of David.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman
So Bathsheba went into David's room; he was very old, and Abishag the Shunamite was caring for him.
From The Children's Bible by Sherman, Henry A.
When Adonijah afterwards besought Solomon to give him one of the concubines of David, Abishag the Shunamite, to wife, Solomon thought that he sought to obtain the throne by this means.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max
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