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אָכִישׁ

a.khish

Achish

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Strong’s H397Proper name, a person21 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

achish21

In the text

1 Samuel 21:10אָכִישׁ
That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.
1 Kings 2:39אָכִישׁ
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.”

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אָכִישׁ n.pr.m. king of Gath

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.