אֲכִישׁʼĂkîysh

proper name, masculine: king of Gath (1 Samuel 21:11; 1 Samuel 21:12; 1 Samuel 21:13; 1 Samuel 21:15; 1 Kings 2:39)

Pronunciation: aw-keesh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H397

Where it appears

Appears 21 times in the Bible.

1 Samuel 21:10 So David escaped from Saul and went to King Achish of Gath.
1 Samuel 21:11 But the officers of Achish were unhappy about his being there. “Isn’t this David, the king of the land?” they asked. “Isn’t he the one the people honor with dances, singing, ‘Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”
1 Samuel 21:12 David heard these comments and was very afraid of what King Achish of Gath might do to him.
1 Samuel 21:14 Finally, King Achish said to his men, “Must you bring me a madman?
1 Samuel 27:2 So David took his 600 men and went over and joined Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.
1 Samuel 27:3 David and his men and their families settled there with Achish at Gath. David brought his two wives along with him—Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal’s widow from Carmel.

See every passage

1 Samuel 21:10, 21:11, 21:12, 21:14, 27:2, 27:3, 27:5, 27:6, 27:9, 27:10, 27:12, 28:1, 28:2, 29:2, 29:3, 29:6, 29:8, 29:9
1 Kings 2:39, 2:40

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).