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Origin of the name ABHIGHAIL.
Etymology of the
name ABHIGHAIL.
Meaning of the baby name ABHIGHAIL.
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ABHIGHAIL (אֲבִיגָיִל). Original Hebrew form of biblical Abigail
(q.v.), meaning "father of joy."
(1) The wife of Nabal. She was "a woman of good
understanding, and of a beautiful countenance," and on the death of
her first husband became one of David's wives (1 Sam. xxv. 3, 14-44;
xxvii. 3; 2 Sam. ii. 2). When the Amalekites captures Ziklag they
took her captive, but she was rescued by her husband after he had
defeated the enemy (xxx. 5, 18. She bore to him a son called
Chileab (2 Sam. iii. 3).
(2) David's second
sister. She married Ithra or Jether, an Israelite or Ishmaelite,
and had a son Amas (2 Sam. xvii. 25; 1 Chron. ii. 16, 17). (The
Sunday School Teacher's Bible Manual, Hunter, 1894)
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