STRONGS NUMBER H7027


Word Summary
Qish: father of Saul, also the name of several other Isr
Original Word: קִישׁ
Transliteration: Qish
Phonetic Spelling: (keesh)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: father of Saul, also the name of several other Isr
Meaning: Kish -- father of Saul, also the name of several other Israelites
Strong's Concordance
Kish

From qowsh; a bow; Kish, the name of five Israelites -- Kish.

see HEBREW qowsh

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7027. Qish

קִישׁproper name, masculine (probably *קַיְשְׁ‎ Arabic Aramaic קישׁא‎ NöZMG xi (1896), 167 originally proper name, of deity as Arabic which now only in proper name, of person WeHeid. 2. 67); — K(ε)ις:

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

2 Levites :

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

b.2 Chronicles 29:12.

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