How to insert a string in array

I’m kinda new with as2.
does anyone know a good way of how to insert a number of string defined in an array?

it doesn’t work

ex:
var item1:String = “items1…”;
var item2:String = “items2…”;
var item3:String = “items3…”;
var item4:String = “items4…”;
var item5:String = “items5…”;
var item6:String = “items6…”;

var tabItems:Array = new Array();

for (var i:Number=0;i<=6;i++)
{
tabItems.push(item+i);
}

msg error: “there’s no property in with the name item”.