Abishag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Abishag
From Late Latin Abisag, from Greek Abiság, from Hebrew Abhīsheg “My father strays”
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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
“Take the case of Ruth and Boaz, for instance; and we must not forget King David’s having taken Abishag the Shunamite to comfort him in his old age.”
From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
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 Max Duncker
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