Entry № 72 · Hebrew origin

Abishag Abishag — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-bee-shahg /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"My father wandered (David's young companion)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "my father wandered (david's young companion)".

Abishag (אֲבִישַׁג) means "my father wandered" in Hebrew. In 1 Kings 1:3, Abishag the Shunammite was the beautiful young woman brought to comfort the aged King David in his final days. After David's death, Adonijah's request to marry her cost him his life — Solomon saw it as a claim on the throne.

Featured in Rilke's poems and Yehoshua Bar-Yosef's novel The Beautiful Shunammite.

David's beautiful young Shunammite companion.

The name in its native script.

אֲבִישַׁג
Transliteration
ʾĂḇîšaḡ
Pronunciation
/ ˈæ.bɪ.ʃæɡ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Abishag stands.

Abishag does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Abishags before her.

Real people
Abishag
David's companion.
In fiction
Abishag
1 Kings 1:3.
Hebrew Bible
Abishag
Subject of Rilke's poetry.

Names connected to Abishag.

The number behind Abishag.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Abishag reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.