אֲבִיגַ֫יִל, אֲבִיגַ֫ל

a.vi.ga.yilAbigail
hebrewOld TestamentName of a woman17 occurrences3 books17 verses
This name belongs to 2 different people in the Bible:
  • Abigail: Wife of Nabal, later married David
  • Abigail: Sister of David; mother of Amasa

Definition

or shorter אֲבִיגַל; from H1 and H1524; father (i.e. source) of joy; Abigail or Abigal, the name of two Israelitesses
Traditional renderings: Abigal.

Glossary entries

Abigail

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

17 total
  1. 1 Samuel 25:3אֲבִגָ֑יִל · Abigail
    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.
  2. 1 Samuel 25:14וְלַאֲבִיגַ֙יִל֙ · 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 screamed at them.
  3. 1 Samuel 25:18אֲבוֹגַיִל · Then 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
  4. 1 Samuel 25:23אֲבִיגַ֙יִל֙ · When Abigail
    When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.
  5. 1 Samuel 25:32לַאֲבִיגַ֑ל · to Abigail
    Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day!
  6. 1 Samuel 25:36אֲבִיגַ֣יִל׀ · When 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.
  7. 1 Samuel 25:39בַּאֲבִיגַ֔יִל · to 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 her to become his wife.
  8. 1 Samuel 25:40אֲבִיגַ֖יִל · Abigail
    When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, “David has sent us to take you as his wife.”
  9. 1 Samuel 25:42אֲבִיגַ֗יִל · So 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.
  10. 1 Samuel 27:3וַאֲבִיגַ֥יִל · and 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.
  11. 1 Samuel 30:5וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל · and Abigail
    David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.
  12. 2 Samuel 2:2וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל · and Abigail
    So David went there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
  13. 2 Samuel 3:3לַאֲבִיגֵל · by 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;
  14. 2 Samuel 17:25אֲבִיגַ֣ל · 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.
  15. 1 Chronicles 2:16וַאֲבִיגָ֑יִל · and Abigail
    Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.
  16. 1 Chronicles 2:17וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל · Abigail
    Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
  17. 1 Chronicles 3:1לַאֲבִיגַ֖יִל · by 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;