Abish’s father is unnamed and is mentioned only once in the record. He is identified solely as the father of Abish, a Lamanitish woman in the service of the queen of king Lamoni’s people, who had been “converted unto the Lord for many years, on account of a remarkable vision of her father” (Alma 19:16).
The content of the vision and the circumstances under which it came are not described. The record reports only that it was the cause of Abish’s own conversion to the Lord, which she kept private until the day Ammon and the royal household fell to the earth under the power of God, when she recognized what had happened and ran from house to house to gather the people (Alma 19:16-17).