qish is a personal name used for Saul’s father and for men named in other family lists.

The term functions as a proper personal name, most often identifying the father of Saul in narrative and genealogical statements, while also naming men in other family records. The supplied occurrences do not establish that every named individual is the same person.

1. Personal name in family identifications · dominant

   The form is tagged as a proper noun throughout. In 1 Samuel 9:1 the APB renders Kish within Saul’s ancestral line, and in 1 Samuel 9:3 it identifies Kish as Saul’s father who sends Saul to search for missing donkeys. Other clauses place the name in family lists: 1 Chronicles 23:21 names Kish among Mahli’s sons, while 2 Chronicles 29:12 identifies a Kish as the son of Abdi.

   1 Samuel 9:11 Samuel 9:31 Samuel 14:511 Chronicles 8:331 Chronicles 23:212 Chronicles 29:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as the name “Kish,” often in father-son formulas such as “Kish, Saul’s father” and “Kish was the father of Saul.” Its wording confirms the verse-level identification rather than supplying a separate lexical rendering.