Hushai, or Hushai:
(hasting) an Archite i.e. possibly an inhabitant of a place called Erec (2 Samuel 15:32 ff.; 2 Samuel 16:16 ff.) He is called the "friend" of David (2 Samuel 15:37 compare 1 Chronicles 27:33). To him David confided the delicate and dangerous part of a pretended adherence to the cause of Absalom. (B.C. about 1023) He was probably the father of Baana (1 Kings 4:16).
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