Bible Person
Meaning: a lion · Male · 2 cross references
Laish is the father of Phalti, the man to whom Saul gives Michal after separating her from David. He appears through a family connection tied to one of the more painful personal episodes in David's life. First appears in 1 Sam 25:44.1
AI summary: Laish matters because the cross references place his house behind Phalti and therefore inside the tangle of Saul's manipulation, David's losses, and the later undoing of that marriage arrangement. Though Laish himself is not a public actor, his name anchors the relationship in a real family line. Taken together, the material presents Laish as the paternal background to a household caught up in the political and emotional fallout of Saul's reign.1
Central Figure
Laish
Meaning: a lion
The father of Phalti (1 Sam.
Children
The father of Phalti (1 Sam. 25:44). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.