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
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
Q: Why isn’t anyone named Job or Ham or Japheth or Abishag anymore?
From Washington Post
When one thinks of certain noble men and women—as Maurice and Kingsley, Ruskin and the Browning—devoting themselves in spite of themselves to an effete faith, one is sadly reminded of poor Abishag the Shunammite wasting and withering her healthful youth to cherish old worn-out David, “who knew her not,” who could fill her with no new life, and who was, despite her cherishing, so certainly near death.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
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