Strong's #26: 'Abiygayil (pronounced ab-ee-gah'-yil)

or shorter Abiygal {ab-ee-gal'}; from 1 and 1524; father (i.e. source) of joy; Abigail or Abigal, the name of two Israelitesses:--Abigal.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ăbı̂ygayil / 'ăbı̂ygal

Abigail = "my father is joy"

1) wife of Nabal, then of David

2) sister of David

Part of Speech: noun proper feminine

Relation: from H1 and H1524

Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

 

1 Samuel 25:3: "was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful"
1 Samuel 25:14: "But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's"
1 Samuel 25:18: " Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, bottles of wine,"
1 Samuel 25:23: " And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, off"
1 Samuel 25:32: "And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD of Israel, which"
1 Samuel 25:36: " And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, in his house, like the feast"
1 Samuel 25:39: "of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife."
1 Samuel 25:40: "of David were come to Abigail they spoke unto her, saying,"
1 Samuel 25:42: " And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon with five damsels"
1 Samuel 27:3: "wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife."
1 Samuel 30:5: "were taken captives, Ahinoam and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite."
2 Samuel 2:2: "Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite."
2 Samuel 3:3: "And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal and the third, Absalom"
2 Samuel 17:25: "that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah"
1 Chronicles 2:16: "Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; and Joab, and Asahel,"
1 Chronicles 2:17: " And Abigail bore Amasa: and the father was Jether the Ishmaelite."
1 Chronicles 3:1: "the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:"