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Abihail
ABIHAIL (ăb'i-hāl, Heb. ’ăvîhayil, the father is strength)
A Levite, the father of Zuriel, who in the wilderness was the head of the house of Merari (
ABIHAIL ăb’ ə hāl (אֲבִיהָ֑יִל, the [my] father is strength or strong father). In
2. The wife of Abishur of Judah, a Jerahmeelite (
3. A man of the tribe of Gad who lived in Gilead in Bashan (
4. Wife and cousin of Jerimoth and mother of Mahalath a wife of Rehoboam. Ambiguity in the text (
5. Father of Queen Esther and uncle of Mordecai (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
Five persons in the Old Testament are called by this name:
(1) A Levite and the father of Zuriel, who in the Wilderness was head of the house of Merari, Levi’s youngest son (
(2) The wife of Abishur, a man of the tribe of Judah, in the line of Hazron and Jerahmeel (
(3) One of the heads of the tribe of Gad, who dwelt in Gilead of Bashan (
(4) Either a wife of Rehoboam, king of Judah, or mother of his wife Mahalath, according to the interpretation of the text (
(5) Father of Queen Esther, who became wife of Xerxes (Biblical Ahasuerus) king of Persia, after the removal of the former queen, Vashti, (