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1 Kings 1

1 Kings 1:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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So they sought
baqash (Hebrew #1245)
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
KJV usage: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Pronounce: baw-kash'
Origin: a primitive root
for a fair
yapheh (Hebrew #3303)
beautiful (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: + beautiful, beauty, comely, fair(-est, one), + goodly, pleasant, well.
Pronounce: yaw-feh'
Origin: from 3302
damsel
na`arah (Hebrew #5291)
a girl (from infancy to adolescence)
KJV usage: damsel, maid(-en), young (woman).
Pronounce: nah-ar-aw'
Origin: feminine of 5288
throughout all the coasts
gbuwl (Hebrew #1366)
from 1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extens. the territory inclosed
KJV usage: border, bound, coast, X great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
Pronounce: gheb-ool'
Origin: or (shortened) gbul {gheb-ool'}
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, and found
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
Abishag
'Abiyshag (Hebrew #49)
father of error (i.e. blundering); Abishag, a concubine of David
KJV usage: Abishag.
Pronounce: ab-ee-shag'
Origin: from 1 and 7686
a Shunammite
Shuwnammiyth (Hebrew #7767)
a Shunammitess, or female inhabitant of Shunem
KJV usage: Shunamite.
Pronounce: shoo-nam-meeth'
Origin: patrial from 7766
, and brought
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
her to the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
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Abishag,
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Shunammite

Cross References

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So.
Esther 2:2,4• 2Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
 4And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so. (Esther 2:2,4)
Abishag.
1 Kings 2:17‑25• 17And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
 18And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
 19Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
 20Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
 21And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
 22And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
 23Then king Solomon sware by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
 24Now therefore, as the Lord liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
 25And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died. (1 Kings 2:17‑25)
Shunammite.
Josh. 19:18• 18And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, (Josh. 19:18)
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1 Sam. 28:4• 4And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa. (1 Sam. 28:4)
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2 Kings 4:8,25• 8And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
 25So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite: (2 Kings 4:8,25)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they sought for a fair damsel throughout the territory of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.