Bible Person
Meaning: the father of strength · Female · 2 cross references
Abihail is the father of Esther and the relative whose line is carried forward through Mordecai's care for her. This figure appears through a family connection at the heart of the Esther story. First appears in Esth 2:15.1
AI summary: Abihail matters because the cross references place the house behind Esther, the Jewish woman who rises to queenship in Persia and becomes the instrument of her people's preservation. Though this figure remains offstage, the name anchors Esther within a remembered Jewish family line rather than treating her as an isolated heroine. Taken together, the material presents Abihail as the paternal source of Esther's household identity within the book's providential drama.1
Central Figure
Abihail
Meaning: the father of strength
The father of Esther and uncle of Mordecai (Esther 2:15).
Children
The father of Esther and uncle of Mordecai (Esther 2:15). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.