Abishag (אֲבִישַׁג) means "my father wandered" in Hebrew. In 1 Kings 1:3, Abishag the Shunammite was the beautiful young woman brought to comfort the aged King David in his final days. After David's death, Adonijah's request to marry her cost him his life — Solomon saw it as a claim on the throne.
Featured in Rilke's poems and Yehoshua Bar-Yosef's novel The Beautiful Shunammite.
Abishag reduces to nine — the number of biblical Shunammite.