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# אֲבִיחַיִל

Biblical Hebrew

**Abihail** — used 4 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

Abihail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d1_5b4_5d9_5d7_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִיחַ֫יִל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d1_5b4_5d9_5d7_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. & f. (my father is might, Sab. אבחיל HalMA 234)—prob. = אֲבִיהַיִל 2 Ch 11:18, אֲבִיהָ֑יִל 1 Ch 2:29— a Levite Nu 3:35. a Gadite 1 Ch 5:14. father of Esther Est 2:15; 9:29. wife of Abishur 1 Ch 2:29. wife of Rehoboam 2 Ch 11:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Abihail (4).

## In the verses

[Numbers 3:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.35/#tree)

וּנְשִׂ֤יא בֵֽית־אָב֙ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת מְרָרִ֔י צוּרִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן־אֲבִיחָ֑יִל עַ֣ל יֶ֧רֶךְ הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ן יַחֲנ֖וּ צָפֹֽנָה׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] leader of.\[the\].house of.a.father of the.clans of.\[the\].Merarite\[s\] \[was\].Zuriel the.son of.Abihail at the.side of the.tabernacle they.will.encamp northward

*JPS 1917:* the prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari being Zuriel the son of Abihail; they were to pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward;

[1 Chronicles 5:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.14/#tree)

אֵ֣לֶּה ׀ בְּנֵ֣י אֲבִיחַ֗יִל בֶּן־חוּרִ֡י בֶּן־יָ֠רוֹחַ בֶּן־גִּלְעָ֧ד בֶּן־מִיכָאֵ֛ל בֶּן־יְשִׁישַׁ֥י בֶּן־יַחְדּ֖וֹ בֶּן־בּֽוּז׃

*Word for word:* these \[were\].the.sons of.Abihail the.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

*JPS 1917:* These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jehishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d1_5b4_5d9_5d7_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b2_5d1_5b4_5d9_5d7_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dc/): 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).