Difference between revisions of "Abihail"

<p> <translit> ab´i </translit> - <translit> hāl </translit> ( <span> אביחיל </span> , <i> <translit> 'ăbhı̄ḥayil </translit> </i> ; in some manuscripts <i> <translit> 'abhihayil </translit> </i> , when feminine, but best reading is the former: "father, or cause, of strength"): [[Five]] persons in the [[Old]] [[Testament]] are called by this name: (1) <links> A L </links> evite and the father of Zuriel, who in the [[Wilderness]] was head of the house of Merari, Levi's youngest son ( <span> [[Numbers]] 3:35 </span> ); (2) The wife of Abishur, a man of the tribe of Judah, in the line of Hazron and [[Jerahmeel]] ( <span> 1 [[Chronicles]] 2:29 </span> ); (3) [[One]] of the heads of the tribe of Gad, who dwelt in [[Gilead]] of [[Bashan]] ( <span> 1 Chronicles 5:14 </span> ); (4) [[Either]] a wife of Rehoboam, king of Judah, or mother of his wife Mahalath, according to the interpretation of the text ( <span> 2 Chronicles 11:18 </span> ); probably the latter view is correct, since there is no conjunction in the text, and since ( <span> 2 Chronicles 11:19 </span> ) contemplates only one wife as already mentioned. This being true, she was the wife of Jerimath, a son of David, and daughter of Eliab, David's eldest brother. It is interesting to note this frequent intermarriage in the [[Davidic]] house; (5) [[Father]] of [[Queen]] Esther, who became wife of Xerxes (Biblical <i> [[Ahasuerus]] </i> ) king of Persia, after the removal of the former queen, Vashti, ( <span> [[Esther]] 2:15 </span> ; <span> Esther 9:29 </span> ). [[He]] was uncle of Mordecai. </p>

<p> (Heb. Abicha'yil, <span> אֲבַיחִיַל </span> <span> , father of </span> [i.e. <span> endowed with </span> ] might, or perhaps leader of the song), the name of three men and two women. </p> <p> <span> 1. </span> (Sept. <span> ‘Αβιχαϊ </span> v <span> λ </span> . <span> ) </span> The father of Zuriel, which latter was the chief of the [[Levitical]] family of [[Merari]] at the exode ( <span> [[Numbers]] 3:35 </span> ). B.C. ante 1657. </p> <p> <span> 2. </span> (Sept. <span> ‘Αβιγαία </span> v. r <span> . </span> <span> ‘Αβιχαία </span> .) The wife of [[Abishur]] (of the family of Jerahmeel), and mother of [[Ahban]] and [[Molid]] ( <span> 1 [[Chronicles]] 2:29 </span> , where the name in some MSS. is <span> Abiha'yil, <span> אֲבַיהִיַל </span> , </span> apparently by error). B.C. considerably post 1612. </p> <p> <span> 3. </span> (Sept. <span> ‘Αβιχαία </span> .) The son of Huri, and one of the family chiefs of the tribe of Gad, who settled in [[Bashan]] ( <span> 1 Chronicles 5:14 </span> ), B.C. between 1093 and 782. </p> <p> <span> 4. </span> (Sept. <span> ‘Αβιαϊάλ </span> v. r. <span> ‘Αβιαϊ </span> v <span> α </span> and <span> ‘Αβιχαία </span> .) The second wife of king Rehoboam, to whom she or the previous wife bore several sons ( <span> 2 Chronicles 11:18 </span> ). B.C. 972. She is there called the "daughter" of Eliab, the son of Jesse, which must mean descendant [ (See <a> FATHER </a> ) ], since David, the youngest of his father's sons, was thirty years old when he began to reign, eighty years before her marriage. </p> <p> <span> 5. </span> (Sept. <span> ‘Αμιναδάβ </span> v. r. <span> ‘Αβιχαϊ </span> v <span> α </span> .) The father of Esther, and uncle of [[Mordecai]] ( <span> [[Esther]] 2:15 </span> ; <span> Esther 9:29 </span> ;' comp. 2:7). B.C. ante 479. </p>