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 Project Bible: The APB regularly presents the term as “Abishai,” often adding identifying phrases such as “son of Zeruiah” or “brother of Joab.” Those added kinship descriptions are features of the verse’s presentation rather than separate renderings of the term.