ʼĂbîyhayil — H32

Definition

masculine proper noun

Abihail or Abichail, the name of three Israelites and two Israelitesses

1. Abihail = "my father is might"
2. a Levite in Moses's time
3. a Gadite
4. father of Esther
5. wife of Abishur
6. wife of Rehoboam

Usually translated as

Abihail

Origin

or (more correctly) ʼĂbîychayil ; from H1 and H2428; father (i.e. possessor) of might

• Derived from ʼâb (H1)
• Derived from Chayil (H2428)

Occurrences

ʼĂbîyhayil occurs 6 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (1), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Esther (2)

• Numbers 3:35 — And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail (אֲבִיחָ֑יִל): these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
• 1 Chronicles 2:29 — And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail (אֲבִיהָ֑יִל), and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.
• 1 Chronicles 5:14 — These are the children of Abihail (אֲבִיחַ֗יִל) the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
• 2 Chronicles 11:18 — And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail (אֲבִיהַ֕יִל) the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
• Esther 2:15 — Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail (אֲבִיחַ֣יִל) the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
• Esther 9:29 — Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail (אֲבִיחַ֛יִל), and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.