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Lexicon :: Strong's H26 - 'ăḇîḡayil

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אֲבִיגַיִל
Transliteration
'ăḇîḡayil
Pronunciation
ab-ee-gah'-yil
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Part of Speech
proper feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אֲבִיגַיִל ʼĂbîygayil, ab-ee-gah'-yil; or shorter אֲבִיגַל ʼĂbîygal; from H1 and H1524; father (i.e. source) of joy; Abigail or Abigal, the name of two Israelitesses:—Abigal.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H26 in the following manner: Abigail (17x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H26 in the following manner: Abigail (17x).

  1. Abigail = "my father is joy"

    1. wife of Nabal, then of David

    2. sister of David

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲבִיגַיִל ʼĂbîygayil, ab-ee-gah'-yil; or shorter אֲבִיגַל ʼĂbîygal; from H1 and H1524; father (i.e. source) of joy; Abigail or Abigal, the name of two Israelitesses:—Abigal.
STRONGS H26: Abbreviations
† אֲבִיגַ֫יִל proper name, feminine (my father is joy (?) originally אבגל ? (אֲבִגֵל ? compare MT below & NöZMG 1883, 537 Anm2).
1. wife of Nabal, then of David 1 Samuel 25:14, 23, 39, 40, 42; 1 Samuel 27:3; 1 Samuel 30:5; 2 Samuel 2:2; 1 Chronicles 3:1;＝אֲבִגַיִל 1 Samuel 25:3, 36 אֲבִו֯גַיִל 1 Samuel 25:18, אֲבִיגָל֑ 1 Samuel 25:32, אֲבִיגַ֯לִ 2 Samuel 3:3.
2. sister of David 1 Chronicles 2:16, 17＝אֲבִיגַל 2 Samuel 17:25.

אבוגיל Kt 1 Samuel 25:18 see אֲבִיגַיִל above.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

25:3; 25:14; 25:18; 25:18; 25:23; 25:32; 25:36; 25:39; 25:40; 25:42; 27:3; 30:5

2 Samuel

2:2; 3:3; 17:25

1 Chronicles

2:16; 2:17; 3:1

H26

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H26 matches the Hebrew אֲבִיגַיִל ('ăḇîḡayil),
which occurs 19 times in 17 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:3 - (now the man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail H26. And the woman was good in insight and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings, and he was a Calebite),

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But one of the young men told Abigail H26, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to [fn]greet our master, and he rushed at them angrily.

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Then Abigail H26 hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two [fn]jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and [fn]five seahs of roasted grain and one hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

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Then Abigail H26 saw David; so she hurried and dismounted from her donkey and fell on her face [fn]before David and bowed herself to the ground.

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Then David said to Abigail H26, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me,

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Then Abigail H26 came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything small or great until the morning light.

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Then David heard that Nabal was dead, so he said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has kept back His servant from evil. Yahweh has also returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent [fn]a proposal to Abigail H26, to take her as his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:40 - Then the servants of David came to Abigail H26 at Carmel and spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you to take you as his wife.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42 - Then Abigail H26 hurried and arose, and she rode on a donkey, with her five young women who [fn]went about with her; and she went after the messengers of David and became his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:3 - And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail H26 the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:5 - Now David’s two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail H26 the [fn]widow of Nabal the Carmelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:2 - So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail H26 the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:3 - and his second, Chileab, by Abigail H26 the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:25 - And Absalom set Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was [fn]Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail H26 the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

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and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail H26.

And the three sons of Zeruiah were [fn]Abshai, Joab, and Asahel.

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Abigail H26 bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was [fn]Jether the Ishmaelite.

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Now these were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron:

the firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

the second was Daniel, by Abigail H26 the Carmelitess;

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