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אֲבִיגַיִל

ʼĂbîygayil · H26 · Hebrew · proper noun · 17 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Meanings

  1. Abigail

    A woman also known as Abigal, who was the wife of Nabal and later married King David

    Examples

    1 Samuel 25:3 (now the man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. And the woman was intelligent and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings, and he was a Calebite),

    1 Samuel 25:14 Now one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, and he spoke to them in anger.

    1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine, and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain, and a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and she loaded them on donkeys.

  2. Abigail

    A woman also known as Abigal, sister of King David, wife of Jether the Ishmaelite, and mother of Amasa

    Examples

    2 Samuel 17:25 Absalom put Amasa in command of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who had relations with Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

    1 Chronicles 2:16 Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah were Abshai, Joab, and Asahel.

    1 Chronicles 2:17 Abigail gave birth to Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

7 occurrences in 4 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

5 occurrences in 5 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 3 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of People003001007
אֲבִיגַיִל (Abigail) is the personal name of Nabal's wife, later described as intelligent and beautiful, who became David's wife.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H26. Abigayil אֲבִיגַ֫יִל proper name, feminine (my father is joy (?) originally אבגל?…
H26. Abigayil
אֲבִיגַ֫יִל proper name, feminine (my father is joy (?) originally אבגל? (אֲבִגֵל? compare ᵑ0 below & NöZMG 1883, 537 Anm2).
1 wife of Nabal, then of David 1Sa 25:14, 1Sa 25:23, 1Sa 25:39, 1Sa 25:40, 1Sa 25:42; 1Sa 27:3; 1Sa 30:5; 2Sa 2:2; 1Ch 3:1; = אֲבִגַיִל 1Sa 25:3, 1Sa 25:36 אֲבִו֯גַיִל 1Sa 25:18, אֲבִיגָל֑ 1Sa 25:32, אֲבִיגַ֯לִ 2Sa 3:3.
2 sister of David 1Ch 2:16-17, = אֲבִיגַל 2Sa 17:25.
אבוגיל Kt 2Sam 25:18 see אֲבִיגַיִל below II. אבה.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of People17 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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