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
The girl asks: 'Who is Abishag?' because she is ignorant like you two, who do not know Abishag, my first love.
From The Saint by William Roscoe Thayer
And it was as he thought; she finished the faces with a few strokes of the crayon—old King David was he, and she was Abishag, the Shunammite.
From Doctor Pascal by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
Adonijah, in making request for Abishag, a youthful concubine taken by David in his old age, was considered as insidiously renewing his claims to the sovereignty.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
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