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# אֲבִיגַיִל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H26

**Abigal** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Abigal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/26/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִיגַ֫יִל: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/26/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (my father is joy (?) orig. אבגל? (אֲבִגֵל?) cf. MT infr. & NöZMG 1883, 537 Anm2). wife of Nabal, then of David 1 S 25:14, 23, 39, 40, 42; 27:3; 30:5 2 S 2:2 1 Ch 3:1; = אֲבִגַיִל 1 S 25:3, 36 אֲבִו֯גַיִל v 18, אֲבִיגָ֑ל v 32, אֲבִיגַ֯לִ 2 S 3:3. sister of David 1 Ch 2:16, 17 = אֲבִיגַל 17:25.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abigail (16); \[was\] Abigail (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.17/#tree)

וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל יָלְדָ֖ה אֶת־עֲמָשָׂ֑א וַאֲבִ֣י עֲמָשָׂ֔א יֶ֖תֶר הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Abigail she.bore (et) Amasa and the.father of.Amasa \[was\].Jether the Ishmaelite

*JPS 1917:* And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

[1 Samuel 30:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.5/#tree)

וּשְׁתֵּ֥י נְשֵֽׁי־דָוִ֖ד נִשְׁבּ֑וּ אֲחִינֹ֙עַם֙ הַיִּזְרְעֵלִ֔ית וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל אֵ֖שֶׁת נָבָ֥ל הַֽכַּרְמְלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.two the.wives of.David they.had.been.taken.captive Ahinoam the.Jezreelite \[woman\] and Abigail the.wife of.Nabal the Carmelite

*JPS 1917:* And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/26/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).