ʼĂbîygayil — H26

Definition

feminine proper noun

Abigail or Abigal, the name of two Israelitesses

1. Abigail = "my father is joy"
2. wife of Nabal, then of David
3. sister of David

Usually translated as

Abigal

Origin

or shorter ʼĂbîygal; from H1 and H1524; father (i.e. source) of joy

• Derived from ʼâb (H1)
• Derived from Gîyl (H1524)

Occurrences

ʼĂbîygayil occurs 17 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (11), 2 Samuel (3), 1 Chronicles (3)

• 1 Samuel 25:3 — Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail (אֲבִגָ֑יִל): and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
• 1 Samuel 25:14 — But one of the young men told Abigail (וְלַאֲבִיגַ֙יִל֙), Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.
• 1 Samuel 25:18 — Then Abigail (אֲבִיגַ֡יִל) made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
• 1 Samuel 25:23 — And when Abigail (אֲבִיגַ֙יִל֙) saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
• 1 Samuel 25:32 — And David said to Abigail (לַאֲבִיגַ֑ל), Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
• 1 Samuel 25:36 — And Abigail (אֲבִיגַ֣יִל) came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
• 1 Samuel 25:39 — And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail (בַּאֲבִיגַ֔יִל), to take her to him to wife.
• 1 Samuel 25:40 — And when the servants of David were come to Abigail (אֲבִיגַ֖יִל) to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
• 1 Samuel 25:42 — And Abigail (אֲבִיגַ֗יִל) hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
• 1 Samuel 27:3 — And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail (וַאֲבִיגַ֥יִל) the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.
• 1 Samuel 30:5 — And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail (וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל) the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
• 2 Samuel 2:2 — So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail (וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל) Nabal’s wife the Carmelite.
• 2 Samuel 3:3 — And his second, Chileab, of Abigail (לַאֲֽבִיגַ֕יִל) the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
• 2 Samuel 17:25 — And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail (אֲבִיגַ֣ל) the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.
• 1 Chronicles 2:16 — Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail (וַאֲבִיגָ֑יִל). And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
• 1 Chronicles 2:17 — And Abigail (וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל) bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
• 1 Chronicles 3:1 — Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail (לַאֲבִיגַ֖יִל) the Carmelitess: