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
Adonijah, who had lost the kingdom, requested Bath-sheba's influence with Solomon that the fair young Abishag should be given to him for a wife.
From The Woman's Bible by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Scarcely a portrait of Mr. Howard was extant that did not show Abishag the Shunamite by his side.
From Once Aboard the Lugger by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
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
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