Abihail [Ăbihā'il]—father of might.

1. A Levite, father of Zuriel, the chief of the Merarites in the time of Moses (Num. 3:35).
2. The head of a family of the tribe of Gad (1 Chron. 5:14).
3. The father of Esther, the niece of Mordecai who became Queen of Persia in the place of Vashti (Esther 2:15; 9:29).

Abihail occurs as a woman’s name two times in the Bible (1 Chron. 2:29; 2 Chron. 11:18).