H7027H

קִישׁ

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Kish

A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at 1Ch.23.21; son of: Mahli (H4249); brother of: Libni (H3845H) and Eleazar (H0499J); father of: Jerahmeel (H3396H) § Kish = "bent" 1) a Benjamite of the family of Matri, father of king Saul 2) an ancestor of Mordecai 3) son of Gibeon and brother of Abdon, Zur, Baal, Ner, Nadab, Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth; uncle of Kish the father of king Saul 4) a Merarite Levite, son of Mahli and grandson of Merari the progenitor of the family 5) a Merarite Levite, son of Abdi in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

קִישׁ proper name, masculine (probably *קַיְשְׁ Arabic Aramaic קישׁא Nö^{ZMG xi (1896), 167} originally proper name, of deity as Arabic which now only in proper name, of person We^{Heid. 2. 67}); — K(ε)ις:

1. father of Saul 1Sam 9:1; 1Sam 9:3 (twice in verse); 1Sam 10:11; 1Sam 10:21; 1Sam 14:51; 2Sam 21:14; 1Chr 8:30; 1Chr 8:33 (where read אַבְנֵר Be Kau Kit), v1Chr 8:33 = 1Chr 9:36; 1Chr 9:39 (read as above), v1Chr 9:39; 1Chr 12:1; 1Chr 26:28.

2. Levites :
a. 1Chr 23:21; 1Chr 23:22; 1Chr 24:29 (twice in verse).
b. 2Chr 29:12.

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

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