חוּשַׁיChûwshay

Chushai, an Israelite

Pronunciation: khoo-shah'-ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2365

Meanings

1. friend of David (2 Samuel 15:32; 2 Samuel 17:5; 2 Samuel 17:14)

2. father of one of Solomon's officers (1 Kings 4:16)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 14 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 15:32 When David reached the summit of the Mount of Olives where people worshiped God, Hushai the Arkite was waiting there for him. Hushai had torn his clothing and put dirt on his head as a sign of mourning.
  • 2 Samuel 15:37 So David’s friend Hushai returned to Jerusalem, getting there just as Absalom arrived.
  • 2 Samuel 16:16 When David’s friend Hushai the Arkite arrived, he went immediately to see Absalom. “Long live the king!” he exclaimed. “Long live the king!”
  • 2 Samuel 16:17 “Is this the way you treat your friend David?” Absalom asked him. “Why aren’t you with him?”
  • 2 Samuel 16:18 “I’m here because I belong to the man who is chosen by the Lord and by all the men of Israel,” Hushai replied.
  • 2 Samuel 17:5 But then Absalom said, “Bring in Hushai the Arkite. Let’s see what he thinks about this.”
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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).