חַגִּיתChaggîyth
proper name, masculine: wife of David and mother of Adonijah (2 Samuel 3:4; 1 Kings 1:5; 1 Kings 1:11; 1 Kings 2:13; 1 Chronicles 3:2)
Pronunciation: khag-gheeth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2294
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 3:4 The fourth was Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith. The fifth was Shephatiah, whose mother was Abital.
- 1 Kings 1:5 About that time David’s son Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, began boasting, “I will make myself king.” So he provided himself with chariots and charioteers and recruited fifty men to run in front of him.
- 1 Kings 1:11 Then Nathan went to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, and asked her, “Haven’t you heard that Haggith’s son, Adonijah, has made himself king, and our lord David doesn’t even know about it?
- 1 Kings 2:13 One day Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, came to see Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. “Have you come with peaceful intentions?” she asked him. “Yes,” he said, “I come in peace.
- 1 Chronicles 3:2 The third was Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. The fourth was Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).