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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 - The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. And she was a woman of good understanding and beautiful appearance; but the man was harsh and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - Now one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master; and he reviled 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 of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five seahs of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:23 - Now when Abigail saw David, she dismounted quickly from the donkey, fell on her face before David, and bowed down to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:32 - Then David said to Abigail: “Blessed is the LORD 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 - Now Abigail went to Nabal, and there 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; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:39 - So when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil! For the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head.” And David sent and proposed 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 had come to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her saying, “David sent us to you, to ask you to become his wife.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42 - So Abigail rose in haste and rode on a donkey, attended by five of her maidens; and 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 - So David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:5

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

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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 the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:3 - his second, Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite; 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 - And Absalom made Amasa captain of the army instead of Joab. This Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Jithra,[fn] an Israelite,[fn] who had gone in to Abigail 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 - Now their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah were 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.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:1 - Now these were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel,[fn] by Abigail the Carmelitess;
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