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HebrewH0032Proper Noun (Masculine)

אֲבִיחַ֫יִל

a.vi.ha.yil

6Occurrences
H0032Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

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

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at ; father of: Zuriel (H6700) § Abihail = "my father is might" 1) a Levite in Moses's time 2) a Gadite 3) father of Esther 4) wife of Abishur 5) wife of Rehoboam

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

אֲבִיחַ֫יִל appears 6 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
2
Esther
2
2 Chronicles
1
Numbers
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:29BSB

Abishur’s wife was named Abihail, and she bore to him Ahban and Molid.

1 Chronicles 5:14BSB

These were the sons of Abihail 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 11:18BSB

And Rehoboam married Mahalath, who was the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of Abihail, the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab.

Esther 2:15BSB

Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.

Esther 9:29BSB

So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.