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Meaning and etymology of the name Ahishar
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Ahishar 
The only Ahishar in the Bible is king Solomon's chief of staff (1 Kings 4:6). Apart from this brief cameo, Ahishar has no further role in the Bible.
The name Ahishar consists of two elements. The first part comes from the word  (ah), meaning brother, or close associate. The post-fixed letter yod creates a possessive: my brother, or brother of. See the identical name Ahi.
The origin of the second part of the name Ahishar is not clear and scholars disagree. BDB Theological Dictionary and NOBS Study Bible Name List derive it from the verb  (shir), meaning to sing. Derived masculine noun (shir) means song, as does the feminine variant  (shira). And indeed, our verb shir belongs to a group of verbs of which the letter yod drops out in certain grammatical constructions. Hence, for a meaning of the name Ahishar, both BDB and NOBS read My Brother Has Sung.
Alfred Jones (Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names), however, sees more in the verb  (shrr), which is unused in the Bible but which may have meant to be hard or firm. One derivative of this root is the noun  (shor), meaning umbilical cord (Ezekiel 16:4, Proverbs 3:8). Hence Jones reads
Brother Of Firmness.
The renowned theologian Gesenius also has a different idea and proposes relations with the verb  (yashar) meaning to be upright or just. Hence Gesenius reads Brother Of The Upright. That would associate our name to the names Asshur,
Jashar,
Jesharelah,
Jeshurun and
Sharon.
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