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ABIGAIL (Heb. Abigayil, perhaps "father is joy"), or ABIGAL (2 Sam. iii. 3)

ABIGAIL (Heb. Abigayil, perhaps "See also:
FATHER
father is joy"), or ABIGAL (2 Sam. iii. 3) , in the See also:

Bible, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite, on whose See also:

DEATH

death she became the wife of See also:

David (I Sam. See also:

xxv.). By her David had a son, whose name appears in the See also:

HEBREW

Hebrew of 2 Sam. iii. 3 as Chileab, in the See also:

SEPTUAGINT, THE (Gr. of 0', Lat. LXX.)

Septuagint as Daluyah, and in 1 Chron. as See also:

Daniel. The name Abigail was also See also:

BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne by a See also:

SISTER

sister of David (2 Sam. xvii. 25; I Chron. ii. 16 f.). From the former (self-styled "handmaid" i Sam. xxv. 25 f.) is derived the colloquial use of the See also:

TERM

term for a waiting-woman (cf. Abigail, the "waiting gentlewoman," in See also:

Beaumont and See also:

Fletcher's Scornful See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady).

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