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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H26

אֲבִיגַיִל

Abigayilab-ee-gah'-yil

Abigail

17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼĂbîygayil

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H26is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 3 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 15
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H26

Abigail or Abigal, the name of two Israelitesses

The King James renders it: Abigal.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Abigayil is rendered "Abigail". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.

  • Eleven of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 25:3His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.
  • The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.

The first use

His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

1 Samuel 25:3אֲבִגָ֑יִל

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eleven of the word's seventeen uses are in 1 Samuel.

The other 36 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Abigail7
  • and Abigail5
  • to Abigail2
  • and to Abigail1
  • of Abigail1
  • with Abigail1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

אֲבִי הָעֶזְרִיAbi ha-EzriAbiezriteUses6
אֲבִיּוֹנָהabionahdesireUses1

All 17, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

15 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל3
  • אֲבִגָ֑יִל1
  • אֲבִיגַ֡יִל1
  • אֲבִיגַ֙יִל֙1
  • אֲבִיגַ֖יִל1
  • אֲבִיגַ֗יִל1
  • אֲבִיגַ֣יִל׀1
  • אֲבִיגַ֣ל1
  • בַּאֲבִיגַ֔יִל1
  • וַאֲבִיגַ֥יִל1
  • וַאֲבִיגָ֑יִל1
  • וְלַאֲבִיגַ֙יִל֙1

and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)7HNpf
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)5HC/Npf
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)4HR/Npf
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npf

1 Samuel

eleven uses
  • His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

    1 Samuel 25:3

    • אֲבִגָ֑יִלʾavigayilproper noun (a name)tagged: Abigail
  • Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scolded them.

    1 Samuel 25:14

    • וְלַאֲבִיגַ֙יִל֙velaavigayilconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Abigail
  • Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys

    1 Samuel 25:18

    • אֲבִיגַ֡יִלʾavogayilproper noun (a name)tagged: Abigail
  • When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.

    1 Samuel 25:23

    • אֲבִיגַ֙יִל֙ʾavigayilproper noun (a name)tagged: Abigail
  • Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day!

    1 Samuel 25:32

    • לַאֲבִיגַ֑לlaavigalpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Abigail
  • When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

    1 Samuel 25:36

    • אֲבִיגַ֣יִל׀ʾavigayilproper noun (a name)tagged: Abigail
  • On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking for her in marriage.

    1 Samuel 25:39

    • בַּאֲבִיגַ֔יִלbaavigayilpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: with Abigail
  • When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, “David has sent us to take you as his wife.”

    1 Samuel 25:40

    • אֲבִיגַ֖יִלʾavigayilproper noun (a name)tagged: Abigail
  • So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

    1 Samuel 25:42

    • אֲבִיגַ֗יִלʾavigayilproper noun (a name)tagged: Abigail
  • David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.

    1 Samuel 27:3

    • וַאֲבִיגַ֥יִלvaavigayilconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Abigail
  • David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.

    1 Samuel 30:5

    • וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִלvaavigayilconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Abigail

2 Samuel

three uses
  • So David went there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

    2 Samuel 2:2

    • וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִלvaavigayilconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Abigail
  • his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;

    2 Samuel 3:3

    • לַאֲֽבִיגַ֕יִלlaavigelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Abigail
  • Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

    2 Samuel 17:25

    • אֲבִיגַ֣לʾavigalproper noun (a name)tagged: Abigail

1 Chronicles

three uses
  • Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.

    1 Chronicles 2:16

    • וַאֲבִיגָ֑יִלvaavigayilconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Abigail
  • Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

    1 Chronicles 2:17

    • וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִלvaavigayilconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Abigail
  • These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second was Daniel by Abigail of Carmel;

    1 Chronicles 3:1

    • לַאֲבִיגַ֖יִלlaavigayilpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Abigail

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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