a.vi.shay identifies a man named alongside Joab and Zeruiah in genealogical, military, and court narratives.

The term functions as a proper personal name, identifying the man named among Zeruiah’s sons and in narratives of military command, pursuit, counsel, and conflict. The supplied forms are consistently tagged Noun · Proper, while the surrounding clauses distinguish the named individual through kinship and actions rather than through a lexical range of senses.

1. Personal name in family and narrative identification · dominant

   All supplied occurrences tag the form as Noun · Proper. In 1 Chronicles 2:16 the APB renders the name in the list of Zeruiah’s sons alongside Joab and Asahel; in 2 Samuel 18:2 it identifies the commander over one third of the people, and in 1 Samuel 26:8 it identifies the speaker who asks David to let him strike Saul.

   1 Chronicles 2:161 Samuel 26:82 Samuel 18:22 Samuel 21:172 Samuel 23:181 Chronicles 19:11

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB regularly presents the term as “Abishai,” often adding identifying phrases such as “son of Zeruiah” or “brother of Joab.” Because the paraphrase is not word-aligned, those added kinship descriptions are features of the verse’s presentation rather than separate renderings of the term.