Hushai

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Hushai
     quick, "the Archite," "the king's friend" (1 Chr. 27:33). When
     David fled from Jerusalem, on account of the rebellion of
     Absalom, and had reached the summit of Olivet, he there met
     Hushai, whom he sent back to Jerusalem for the purpose of
     counteracting the influence of Ahithophel, who had joined the


     ranks of Absalom (2 Sam. 15:32, 37; 16:16-18). It was by his
     advice that Absalom refrained from immediately pursuing after
     David. By this delay the cause of Absalom was ruined, for it
     gave David time to muster his forces.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Hushai, their haste; their sensuality; their silence