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Meaning and etymology of the name Kish
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Kish 
The name Kish occurs five times in the Bible. The most famous Kish is the Benjaminite father of Saul, the first king of Israel. A great-uncle of Saul is also named Kish (1 Chronicles 8:30) and so is the great-grandfather of Mordecai, the cousin and caretaker of Esther (Est 2:5). In the Merari branch of the Levites are also two men named Kish, one in David's time (1 Chronicles 23:21) and one in Hezekiah's time (2 Chronicles 29:12).
The name Kish comes from the verb  (qosh) meaning lay bait, or lure. This verb occurs only once in the Bible (Isaiah 29:21), but according to BDB Theological Dictionary, it's the root of the common verb  (yaqosh), meaning to set a snare or lay a trap. This curious phenomenon - that a verb that happens only once spawns four separate names (Kish, Kishi, Kushaiah and Kishon), which are applied to six or seven men and one brook, but a verb that occurs forty times only produces one name (Jokshan) - seems to suggest that the names were invented long before the story was written. That may mean that the stories the way we have them were edited or retold long enough after the events for the language to have evolved. But on the other hand, in our day and age, names are also usually invented long ago.
Fuerst's Hebrew & Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament reports the origin of this verb to be bent, crooked, and hence a bow, to wind, interwoven, hence a snare, snared, to be caught.
The name Kish may mean Snaring, Bird Catcher, says Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names, or Bow, says NOBS Study Bible Name List.
Related names are Kishi, Kushaiah, Kishon and Jokshan.
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