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Abigail

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This article is about the wife of King David. For more information on the name "Abigail", see Abigail (name). For other uses, see Abigail (disambiguation).

See also: Avigayil

Abigail (Hebrew: אֲבִיגַיִל‬, Avigayil) was the wife of Nabal; she became a wife of the future King David after Nabal's death (1 Samuel 25).^[1] Abigail was David's third wife, after Saul's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later married to Palti, son of Laish when David went into hiding, and Ahinoam.

She became the mother of one of David's sons, who is listed in the Book of Chronicles under the name Daniel, in the Masoretic Text of the Books of Samuel as Chileab,^[2] and in the Septuagint text of 2 Samuel 3:3 as Δαλουια, Dalouia.^[3] Her name is spelled Abigal in 2 Samuel 17:25 in the American Standard Version and Ab'igal in the Revised Standard Version,

Name

Derived from the word ab, "father", and the root g-y-l, "to rejoice," the name Abigail has a variety of possible meanings including "my father's joy" and "source of joy".^[4]