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Abihail (Est 2:15)
He was the father of Esther, in the Babylonian exile and the return. Named in scripture at Esther 2:15.
Where in scripture
EstherNow when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
Esther 2:15
Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.
Esther 9:29
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.