avigayil · Abigail

What it means

avigayil (אֲבִיגַיִל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Abigail”.

The name of two women; best known is the wife of Nabal, a woman of good understanding, who later became David's wife (1 Samuel 25); the other is a sister of David (1 Chronicles 2:16). It means "my father rejoices".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×11
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Chronicles×3

• 1 Samuel 25:3

  The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful in form, but the man was harsh and evil in his deeds; he was a Calebite.

• 1 Samuel 25:14

  One young man of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to bless our master, and he flew at them.

• 1 Samuel 25:18

  Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep ready dressed, and five seahs of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on the donkeys.

• 1 Samuel 25:23

  When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey, and fell before David on her face and bowed down to the ground.

• 1 Samuel 25:32

  David said to Abigail, “Blessed be YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!

• 1 Samuel 25:36

  Abigail came to Nabal, and look, he had a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, and he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything, small or great, until the light of morning.

• 1 Samuel 25:39

  David heard that Nabal had died, and he said, “Blessed be YHWH, who has defended the cause of my insult at the hand of Nabal, and has held back his servant from evil; and the evil of Nabal YHWH has returned on his own head.” David sent and spoke to Abigail to take her to himself as wife.

• 1 Samuel 25:40

  David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel and spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you to take you to himself as wife.”

• 1 Samuel 25:42

  Abigail hurried and arose and rode on the donkey, with her five young women who went at her feet; she went after the messengers of David and became his wife.

• 1 Samuel 27:3

  David stayed with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his household, David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal’s wife, of Carmel.

• 1 Samuel 30:5

  David’s two wives had also been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.

• 2 Samuel 2:2

  So David went up there, and also his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

• 2 Samuel 3:3

  and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

• 2 Samuel 17:25

  Absalom had set Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who had gone in to Abigail daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.

• 1 Chronicles 2:16

  And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

• 1 Chronicles 2:17

  And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

• 1 Chronicles 3:1

  And these were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelite;