Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H397
אֲכִישׁ
Akishaw-keesh'
Achish
21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼĂkîysh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H397is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H397
Akish, a Philistine king
The King James renders it: Achish.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Akish is rendered "Achish". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Nineteen of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 21:10That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.
1 Samuel 21:10אָכִ֖ישׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nineteen of the word's twenty-one uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Achish21
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲכִילָה | akilah | food | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אָכִ֥ישׁ4
- אָכִ֖ישׁ3
- אָכִישׁ֙3
- אָכִ֔ישׁ3
- אָכִ֗ישׁ2
- אָכִ֜ישׁ2
- אָכִֽישׁ׃2
- אָכִ֛ישׁ1
- אָכִישׁ֮1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)21HNpm
1 Samuel
nineteen uses
That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.
- אָכִ֖ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
- אָכִישׁ֙ʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
Now David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
- אָכִ֥ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?
- אָכִ֖ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.
- אָכִ֥ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.
- אָכִ֥ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
- אָכִ֗ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah.
- אָכִ֛ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,
- אָכִֽישׁ׃ʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
who would ask him, “What have you raided today?” And David would reply, “The Negev of Judah,” or “The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”
- אָכִ֔ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
So Achish trusted David, thinking, “Since he has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel, he will be my servant forever.”
- אָכִ֖ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
Now in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for warfare against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men are to go out to battle with me.”
- אָכִישׁ֙ʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
David replied, “Then you will come to know what your servant can do.” “Very well,” said Achish. “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”
- אָכִ֔ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
- אָכִישׁ֙ʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
As the Philistine leaders marched out their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched behind them with Achish.
- אָכִֽישׁ׃ʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
Then the commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today I have found no fault in him.”
- אָכִ֜ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright in my sight, and it seems right that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you have no favor in the sight of the leaders.
- אָכִ֜ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
“But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
- אָכִ֗ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
- אָכִישׁ֮ʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
1 Kings
two uses
After three years, however, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And Shimei was told, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.”
- אָכִ֥ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
So Shimei saddled his donkey and set out to Achish at Gath in search of his slaves, and he brought them back from Gath.
- אָכִ֔ישׁʾakhishproper noun (a name)tagged: Achish
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.