Hebrew word · H32

אֲבִיחַ֫יִל

'avichayil

Abihail

Appears 6 times in 6 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Est.2.15;

father of: Esther (H0635)

§ Abihail = "my father is might"

1) a Levite in Moses's time

2) a Gadite

3) father of Esther

4) wife of Abishur

5) wife of Rehoboam

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 3:35 אֲבִיחָ֑יִל Abihail

    The leader of the families of the Merarites was Zuriel son of Abihail; they were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.

1 Chronicles · 2

  1. 1 Chronicles 2:29 אֲבִיהָ֑יִל [was] Abihail

    Abishur’s wife was named Abihail, and she bore to him Ahban and Molid.

  2. 1 Chronicles 5:14 אֲבִיחַ֗יִל Abihail

    These were the sons of Abihail 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.

2 Chronicles · 1

  1. 2 Chronicles 11:18 אֲבִיהַ֕יִל Abihail

    And Rehoboam married Mahalath, who was the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of Abihail, the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab.

Esther · 2

  1. Esther 2:15 אֲבִיחַ֣יִל Abihail

    Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.

    Here: Her birth father, named only here and in 9:29. The name means roughly 'my father is strength' or 'father of might'.

  2. Esther 9:29 אֲבִיחַ֛יִל Abihail

    So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.