Abishua

Abishua (Hebrew: אֲבִישׁוּעַ ʾĂḇīšūaʿ, "my father is rescue") was an early High priest of Israel.

The first two words of the tashqil colophon on the Abisha Scroll, which reads, "I, Abishua". Samaritan tradtiion claims that the scroll was written by Abishua 13 years after the conquest of Canaan.

Abishua is mentioned in the books 1 Chronicles (6:35) and Ezra (7:5) as the son of the High Priest Phinehas, son of Eleazar. As such, he is the great-grandson of Aaron, the brother of Moses and first High Priest. It is likely that Abishua was a contemporary of the Israelite judge Ehud and the Moabite king Eglon.[1]

According to Josephus and other extrabiblical sources, he succeeded his father as High Priest.[2]

Name and namesakes
  • The meaning of the name "Abishua" is uncertain, but may be "the (divine) father is opulence."[3]
  • The name also appears in reference to a grandson of Benjamin in 1 Chronicles 8:4.
Patrilineal descent
  1. Abraham
  2. Isaac
  3. Jacob
  4. Levi
  5. Kehath
  6. Amram
  7. Aaron
  8. Eleazar
  9. Phinehas

References
  1. "Topical Bible: Abishua". biblehub.com.
  2. "Adam to Angell - Genealogy.com". www.genealogy.com. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
  3. Cheyne and Black (1899), Encyclopaedia Biblica, entry for "Abishua."
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