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See also:ABIGAIL (Heb. Abigayil, perhaps "See also: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 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 of 2 Sam. iii . 3 as Chileab, in the See also:Septuagint as Daluyah, and in 1 Chron. as See also:Daniel . The name See also:Abigail was also See also:borne by a See also: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 for a waiting-woman (cf . Abigail, the "waiting gentlewoman," in See also:Beaumont and See also:Fletcher's Scornful See also:Lady) . |
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