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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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Cross References

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So.
Esther 2:2,4• 2Then said the king's servants that attended upon him, Let there be maidens, virgins of beautiful countenance, sought for the king;
 4And let the maiden that 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, to Solomon the king--for he will not refuse thee--that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.
 18And Bathsheba said, Well, I will speak for thee to the king.
 19And Bathsheba went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne; and he caused a throne 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; refuse me not. And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse thee.
 21And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother as wife.
 22And king Solomon answered and said to 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.
 23And king Solomon swore by Jehovah saying, God do so to me, and more also,--Adonijah has spoken this word against his own life!
 24And now as Jehovah liveth, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a 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; who fell on him, that he died. (1 Kings 2:17‑25)
Shunammite.
Josh. 19:18• 18And their territory was toward Jizreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, (Josh. 19:18)
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1 Sam. 28:4• 4And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa. (1 Sam. 28:4)
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2 Kings 4:8,25• 8And it came to pass on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a wealthy 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.
 25And she went and came to 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, there is the 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.