Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H32: אֲבִיהַיִל

ʼĂbîyhayil · pronounced ab-ee-hah'-yil · “Abihail”

Definition

Abihail or Abichail, the name of three Israelites and two Israelitesses

KJV translates it as: Abihail.

Word origin: or (more correctly) אֲבִיחַיִל ; from H1 (אָב) and H2428 (חַיִל); father (i.e. possessor) of might;

Extended definition

A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at Num.3.35;
father of: Zuriel (H6700)
§ 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

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H32 is translated

  • abihail ×5
  • was abihail ×1

Bible verses with H32 (ʼĂbîyhayil)

ʼăbîyhayil appears in 6 verses.

  • Numbers 3:35

    And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:29

    And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.

  • 1 Chronicles 5:14

    These are the children 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;

  • 2 Chronicles 11:18

    And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;

  • Esther 2:15

    Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

  • Esther 9:29

    Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.