Abihail may refer to one of five different people mentioned in the Bible:
# Abihail the
Levite lived during the time of the wandering of the Israelites in the wilderness. He was the head of the house of Merari and
Levi's youngest son. (Numbers 3:35)
# Abihail was the wife of
Abishur Abishur (Father of the wall; i.e., "mason") is one of the two sons of Shammai of the Tribe of Judah (1 Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles ( he, דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chron ...
of the
tribe of Judah. (I Chronicles 2:29)
# Abihail, from
Gilead of
Bashan, was head of the tribe of Gad. (I Chronicles 5:14)
# Abihail was the daughter of
David's brother
Eliab. She was married to David's son
Jerimoth
Jerimoth ( he, ירִימוֹת, links=no, sometimes spelled Jeremoth) in the Hebrew Bible is the name of eight men:
*In 1 Chronicles 7:7, Jerimoth is a son of Bela.
*In 1 Chronicles 7:8, Jerimoth is a son of Becher.
*In 1 Chronicles 12:5, Jeri ...
and became mother of
Rehoboam
Rehoboam (; , ; , ; la, Roboam, ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the last monarch of the United Kingdom of Israel and the first monarch of the Kingdom of Judah after the former's split. He was a son of and the successor to Solomon and a gr ...
's wife
Mahalath. (II Chronicles 11:18)
# Abihail was the father of Queen
Esther and uncle of
Mordecai. (Esther 2:15; Esther 9:29)
References
"Abihail" ''International Standard Bible Encyclopedia''.
Women in the Hebrew Bible
Gilead
{{Hebrew-Bible-stub