# H26 אֲבִיגַיִל

אֲבִיגַיִל (ʼĂbîygayil), Strong’s H26: Abigail or Abigal, the name of two Israelitesses KJV: Abigal.. Occurs 17 times.

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*ʼĂbîygayil* — Abigail or Abigal, the name of two Israelitesses

KJV: Abigal.

Built from [אָב ʼâb](https://besorah.bible/word/H1) (father) + [גִּיל gîyl](https://besorah.bible/word/H1524) (a revolution) — means “father (i.e. source) of joy”

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֲבִיגַ֫יִל n.pr.f. (my father is joy (?))
- 1 wife of Nabal, then of David
- 2 sister of David

## Where it occurs
- [1 Samuel 25:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=3) — Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful…
- [1 Samuel 25:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=14) — But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to…
- [1 Samuel 25:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=18) — Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs…
- [1 Samuel 25:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=23) — When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face and bowed herself to the…
- [1 Samuel 25:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=32) — David said to Abigail, “Blessed is the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!
- [1 Samuel 25:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=36) — Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry…
- [1 Samuel 25:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=39) — When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the…
- [1 Samuel 25:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=40) — When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you…
- [1 Samuel 25:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=42) — Abigail hurriedly arose and rode on a donkey with her five maids who followed her; and she went after the messengers of…
- [1 Samuel 27:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/27?v=3) — David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam…