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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:18 - Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs[fn] of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:23 - When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:32 - And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 - And Abigail 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 told him nothing at all until the morning light.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:39 - When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the LORD who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. The LORD has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:40 - When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42 - And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:3 - And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal’s widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:5 - David’s two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:2 - So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:25 - Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite,[fn] who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:16 - And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:17 - Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:1 - These are the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite,
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