What name for a female servant is taken from the wife of Nabal in the Old Testament, after whose death she married David?
"George MacDonald Fraser makes mention of ""an ""abigail"" fussing about the room"" in his novel ""Flashman"" from ""The Flashman Papers"" series. Abigail is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece ""The Dinner Party"", being represented in one of the 999 tiles of the ""Heritage Floor."" Abigail Abigail (, ""Avigayil"") was the wife of Nabal; she became a wife of the future King David after Nabal's death (1 Samuel ). Abigail was David's third wife, after Saul's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later married to Palti, son of Laish when David went into hiding, and Ahinoam. She became the mother of"
"Nabal, the husband of Abigail before David, was ""a Calebite"" (Hebrew ""klby""). It is not stated whether this refers to one of the Calebs mentioned in the Bible, or another person bearing the same name. Traditional Jewish sources record a number of stories about Caleb which expand on the biblical account. One account records that Caleb wanted to bring produce from the land, but that the other spies discouraged him from doing so in order to avoid giving the Israelites a positive impression of Canaan. They only agreed to carry in samples of produce after Caleb brandished a sword and"
"Nabal According to the 1st Book of Samuel Chapter 25, Nabal ( ""Nāḇāl"", ""fool""), was a rich Calebite, described as harsh and surly. He is featured in a story in which he is threatened by David over an insult, and ultimately killed by Yahweh. According to the biblical narrative, David (who was not yet king) and his band of men, who had been fleeing from King Saul, went to the Wilderness of Paran. The account states that Nabal lived in the city of Maon, and owned much land in the town of Carmel, as well as many sheep and goats."
"Bilhah Bilhah (בִּלְהָה ""unworried"", Standard Hebrew ""Bilha"", Tiberian Hebrew ""Bilhâ"") is a person mentioned in the Book of Genesis. describes her as Laban's handmaid, who was given to Rachel to be her handmaid on Rachel's marriage to Jacob. When Rachel failed to have children, Rachel gave Bilhah to Jacob ""to wife"" to bear him children. Bilhah gave birth to two sons, who Rachel claimed as her own and named Dan and Naphtali. expressly calls Bilhah Jacob's concubine, a ""pilegesh"". The Testament of Naftali says that Bilhah and Zilpah's father was named Rotheus. He was taken into captivity but redeemed by"
"comes out to pay homage to Saul as the king and to demonstrate, using the piece of robe, that he holds no malice towards Saul. Moved by David's righteous, Saul and David are reconciled for the first time, and the former recognizes that the latter will indeed be the future king. Then, it is announced that Samuel has died. Afterwards, David journeys to the Desert of Paran, where he seeks provisions from Nabal, a rich man in the region. Nabal insults David, but Nabal's wife, Abigail, intervenes to avert David's wrath. In Book V, Abigail does not initially tell her"
"to report God saying, ""I repent that I have made them and Noah."" Thus even Noah, who was left, was not worthy, save that (in the words of ) ""Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord."" Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said that Naamah, the sister of Tubal-cain, mentioned in was Noah's wife. She was called Naamah, because her deeds were pleasing (""ne'imim""). But the Rabbis said that Naamah was a woman of a different stamp, for her name denotes that she sang (""man'emet"") to the timbrel in honor of idolatry. The Mishnah concluded that the generation of the"
"this Naamah (the daughter of Lamech and sister of Tubal-cain) as the wife of Noah (see Rashi's commentary on Genesis 4:22), while some Jewish traditions associate her with singing. The Naamah mentioned in the Bible is a Cainite, a descendant in the lineage of Cain. However, a Sethite Naamah is named as the wife of Noah, and a daughter of Enoch, Noah's grandfather, in a mediaeval ""midrash"". The 17th-century theologian John Gill mentioned a theory which identified Naamah instead with the name of the wife of Ham, son of Noah, who he believed may have become confused with Noah's wife."
"is at present one of the most common female first names in contemporary Israel. Jael Jael or Yael (Hebrew Ya'el, יָעֵל, meaning Ibex) is a woman mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, as the heroine who killed Sisera to deliver Israel from the troops of King Jabin. Jael was the wife of Heber the Kenite. The Kenites were a nomadic tribe, some of whom lived in close proximity to the Israelites. The Bible records a number of cases of intermarriage; the father-in-law of Moses was apparently a Kenite, but it is not clear if this was"
"Tribe of Dan The Tribe of Dan (), meaning, ""Judge,"" was one of the tribes of Israel, according to the Torah. They were allocated a coastal portion of land when the people of Israel entered the Promised Land, later moving northwards. According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of the descendants of Dan, a son of Jacob and Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant (). In the biblical account, Dan is one of the two children of Bilhah, the handmaid of Jacob's wife Rachel, the other child of Bilhah being Naphtali. Scholars see this as indicating that the authors saw Dan and Naphtali"
"Naomi (biblical figure) Naomi (; Hebrew: } Standard Hebrew ""Noʻomi"", Tiberian Hebrew ""nåʿå̆mī"") is Ruth's mother-in-law in the Old Testament Book of Ruth. The etymology of her name is not certain, but it is possible that it means ""good, pleasant, lovely, winsome."" Naomi is married to a man named Elimelech. A famine causes them to move with their two sons, from their home in Judea to Moab. While there Elimelech dies, as well as his sons who had gotten married in the meantime. Near destitute, Naomi returns to Bethlehem with one daughter-in-law, Ruth, whom she could not dissuade from accompanying"
"being the enemy. Nabal According to the 1st Book of Samuel Chapter 25, Nabal ( ""Nāḇāl"", ""fool""), was a rich Calebite, described as harsh and surly. He is featured in a story in which he is threatened by David over an insult, and ultimately killed by Yahweh. According to the biblical narrative, David (who was not yet king) and his band of men, who had been fleeing from King Saul, went to the Wilderness of Paran. The account states that Nabal lived in the city of Maon, and owned much land in the town of Carmel, as well as many"
"See Wives aboard the Ark. The demon Naamah is identified with this person in some Kabbalistic traditions. Naamah (Genesis) Naamah ( ""Na‘ămāh"") is an individual mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in . A descendant of Cain, she was the only mentioned daughter of Lamech and Zillah and their youngest mentioned child; her brother was Tubal-cain, while Jabal and Jubal were her half-brothers, sons of Lamech's other wife Adah. Gordon Wenham notes that the reason ""she should be picked out for special mention remains obscure"", while R. R. Wilson suggests that the narrator simply wished to offer a balanced genealogy by"
"of the name two verses later. According to the medieval commentator Rashi, ""Nahash"" refers to Jesse. Because he never sinned, he only died because of Adam's sin with the serpent, so he was called Nahash, meaning ""serpent"". In Chronicles, Amasa's father is ""Jether the Ishmaelite,"" but in the Books of Samuel, Amasa's father is ""Ithra the Israelite""; scholars think that the latter case is more likely. Jon Levenson and Baruch Halpern suggest that Abigail, mother of Amasa may, in fact, be the same Abigail who became David's wife. Richard M. Davidson, however, points out that ""on the basis of the"
"Naamah (wife of Solomon) Naamah (""pleasant"") was an ancient queen consort, wife of King Solomon and mother of his heir Rehoboam, according to both , and in the Hebrew Bible. She was an Ammonite, and the only one of all the Queens Mother of Israel or Judah who was a foreigner. She was also the only one of Solomon's wives to be mentioned, within the Hebrew Bible, as having borne a child. Naamah is praised in ""Bava Kamma"" 38b for her righteousness, on account of which Moses had previously been warned by God not to make war upon the Ammonites,"
"my brother; and, together with my mother, takes care of all our family affairs, and is the guardian of my virginity.” Bethuel Bethuel ( ""Bəṯū’êl"", “house of God”), in the Hebrew Bible, was an Aramean man, the youngest son of Nahor and Milcah, the nephew of Abraham, and the father of Laban and Rebecca. Bethuel was also a town in the territory of the tribe of Simeon, west of the Dead Sea. Some scholars identify it with Bethul and Bethel in southern Judah, to which David gives part of the spoils of his combat with the Amalekites. The man Bethuel"
"Jael Jael or Yael (Hebrew Ya'el, יָעֵל, meaning Ibex) is a woman mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, as the heroine who killed Sisera to deliver Israel from the troops of King Jabin. Jael was the wife of Heber the Kenite. The Kenites were a nomadic tribe, some of whom lived in close proximity to the Israelites. The Bible records a number of cases of intermarriage; the father-in-law of Moses was apparently a Kenite, but it is not clear if this was Jethro. The Kenites may have been a part of the Midianite group. Heber the"
"as Naamah was to descend from them. Naamah (wife of Solomon) Naamah (""pleasant"") was an ancient queen consort, wife of King Solomon and mother of his heir Rehoboam, according to both , and in the Hebrew Bible. She was an Ammonite, and the only one of all the Queens Mother of Israel or Judah who was a foreigner. She was also the only one of Solomon's wives to be mentioned, within the Hebrew Bible, as having borne a child. Naamah is praised in ""Bava Kamma"" 38b for her righteousness, on account of which Moses had previously been warned by God"
"in Israel descends from Miriam. In the accounts of the Prophets and Writings (which covers a time period of nearly a millennium) there are two cases of non-Israelite women who voluntarily (not resulting from conflict) married Israelites where their children were considered Israelite. According to the Talmud, both of these women, Ruth and Naamah, formally converted. Ruth, ""who lived centuries after Abraham, came from the people of Moab who descend from the older daughter of Lot"". (Lot was the son of Haran and the nephew of Abraham). Ruth the Moabitess became the great-grandparent of King David. In the account of"
"half-brother Ishmael, as another wife. Jacob lived with Laban for twenty years (Gen. 31:41), marrying Laban's two daughters and two maidservants. He returned to Canaan with his large family, servants, and possessions. As he did, Deborah (Rebecca's nurse) died and was buried at a place that Jacob calls ""Alon Bachuth"" (אלון בכות), ""Tree of Weepings"" (Gen. 35:8). According to the Midrash, the plural form of the word ""weeping"" indicates a double sorrow, implying that Rebecca also died at this time. Her death was not mentioned explicitly for several reasons: According to the Talmud, the Torah's explicit dating of the life"
"story: Gregory Goswell argues that Naomi is the ""central"" character of the book, whereas Ruth is the ""main"" character. The son in question was Obed, who was the father of Jesse and thus later the grandfather of David. Naomi (biblical figure) Naomi (; Hebrew: } Standard Hebrew ""Noʻomi"", Tiberian Hebrew ""nåʿå̆mī"") is Ruth's mother-in-law in the Old Testament Book of Ruth. The etymology of her name is not certain, but it is possible that it means ""good, pleasant, lovely, winsome."" Naomi is married to a man named Elimelech. A famine causes them to move with their two sons, from their"
"of these verses to the Jahwist source, and the remainder to the priestly source. Bethuel lived in Padan-aram, and is described as ""Aramaean"", although his Chaldean background is also indicated, as a descendant of Terah. Bethuel's uncle Abraham sent his senior servant to Padan-aram to find a wife for his son Isaac. By the well outside the city of Nahor, in Aram-naharaim, the servant met Bethuel’s daughter Rebekah. The servant told Rebekah’s household his good fortune in meeting Bethuel’s daughter, Abraham’s relative. Laban and Bethuel answered, “The matter was decreed by the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or"
"The term ""your master's wives"" would actually imply that David inherited Saul's harems, as was common among ancient kings. Adherents of source criticism suggest that references to a woman called ""Ahinoam"" being Saul's wife belong to the account of the ""republican source"" of the Books of Samuel, while in the passages ascribed to the ""monarchial source"", the only mention of a woman called ""Ahinoam"" is the description of her as a wife of David. Since Ahinoam's name usually precedes that of Abigail, it has been suggested that David married Ahinoam before he married Abigail. However, if her son Amnon was"
"be considered among the King's family. Saul reneged and instead gave Merab in marriage to Adriel the Meholathite. Having been told that his younger daughter Michal was in love with David, Saul gave her in marriage to David upon David's payment in Philistine foreskins. Saul became jealous of David and tried to have him killed. David escaped. Then Saul sent Michal to Galim to marry Palti, son of Laish. David then took wives in Hebron, according to 2 Samuel 3; they were Ahinoam the Yizre'elite, Abigail - the wife of Nabal the Carmelite, Maacah - the daughter of Talmay, king"
"oven, destroying the bread. When she exclaimed then that the deluge was commencing, God suddenly cancels his former command lest Noah destroy his own daughter-in-law who was to be saved. An early Arabic work known as ""Kitab al-Magall"" or the ""Book of Rolls"" (part of Clementine literature), the Syriac Book of the ""Cave of Treasures"" (c. 350), and Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria (c. 930) all agree in naming Noah's wife as ""Haykêl, the daughter of Namûs (or Namousa), the daughter of Enoch, the brother of Methuselah""; the first of these sources elsewhere calls Haikal ""the daughter of Mashamos, son of"
"her maid Bilhah, so that Bilhah might bear children upon Rachel's knees who might be credited to Rachel, and he did. Bilhah bore Jacob a son, and Rachel called him Dan, saying that God had judged her and also heard her voice. And Bilhah bore Jacob a second son, and Rachel called him Naphtali, saying that she had wrestled with her sister and prevailed. When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she gave Jacob her maid Zilpah to wife. Zilpah bore Jacob a son, and Leah called him Gad, saying that fortune had come. And Zilpah bore Jacob a"
"first glance appear to contain a similar narrative. The same narrative position is occupied in the ""republican source"" by the story of Nabal, who lived in the region south of Hebron (which includes the Negev). There are some similarities between the narratives, including David leading an army in revenge (for Nabal's unwillingness to give provisions to David), with 400 of the army going ahead and 200 staying behind, as well as David gaining Abigail as a wife (though in the Ziklag narrative he ""re-gains"" her), as well as several provisions, and there being a jovial feast in the enemy camp"
"Hagar Hagar (, ""Hagar"", of uncertain origin; Hājar; ) is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis. She was an Egyptian handmaid of Sarai (Sarah), who gave her to Abraham to bear a child. The product of the union was Abraham's firstborn, Ishmael, the progenitor of the Ishmaelites. Various commentators have connected her to the Hagrites, perhaps as their eponymous ancestor. The name ""Hagar"" originates from the Book of Genesis; she is acknowledged in all Abrahamic religions. Hagar is alluded to in the Quran, and Islam considers her Abraham's second wife. ""This is a summary of the account of"
"of the ancient Near East, such connections are absent in v. 24. The very name of Nahor's concubine appears here exclusively and in no other place in the Hebrew Bible is Re’umah mentioned. The same applies to her children's names with the exception of Ma‘akah which is sometimes utilized in the historical books. The extreme rarity of these appellations demands some alternative interpretation with regards to its purpose. Contradictory, the Hebrew name list of the children born after the sacrifice, may contain some ""coded"" explanation refuting any possible child sacrifice: In other words, v. 24 begins with an interpretational invitation"
"being Rahab, Sarah, and Esther). As the wife of the wealthy Nabal, she is also a woman of high socioeconomic status. Whether David married her because he was attracted to her, or as an astute political move, or both is unclear. Abigail and David's second wife, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, accompany David and his war band as they seek refuge in Philistine territory. While David and his men are encamped near Jezreel, they are captured by Amalekites who raided the town of Ziglak and carried off the women and children. David led the pursuit, and they were subsequently rescued. Both wives"
"of ""gold""); and the 17 shekels of silver that Jeremiah paid his cousin Hanamel for his field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin in The cave of Machpelah in which reports Abraham buried Sarah later became the burial site for Abraham himself (as reported in ) and thereafter Isaac, Rebekah, Leah, and Jacob (as reported in ). The story of Abraham's servant's mission to get a wife for Isaac is told twice, once by the narrator in and then a second time by Abraham's servant in Isaac Abrabanel and other commentators noted a number of differences between the two"
"wife of Jacob (). According to the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, Naphtali was a swift runner, though this appears to have been inferred from the Blessing of Jacob, which equates Naphtali to a hind. However, Biblical scholars believe this to actually be a description of the tribe of Naphtali. Naphtali is listed in Deuteronomy 34.2 when God takes Moses up to the mountain of Nebo and shows him the extent of the land which he had promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. See article on Tribe of Simeon for a map of the twelve tribes of Israel. According to , Naphtali had"
"Bethuel Bethuel ( ""Bəṯū’êl"", “house of God”), in the Hebrew Bible, was an Aramean man, the youngest son of Nahor and Milcah, the nephew of Abraham, and the father of Laban and Rebecca. Bethuel was also a town in the territory of the tribe of Simeon, west of the Dead Sea. Some scholars identify it with Bethul and Bethel in southern Judah, to which David gives part of the spoils of his combat with the Amalekites. The man Bethuel appears nine times in nine verses in the Hebrew Bible, all in Genesis. Adherents of the documentary hypothesis often attribute most"
"both Books of Kings () and Books of Chronicles (), Naamah was an Ammonite. She was the only wife of King Solomon to be mentioned by name in the Tanakh as having borne a child. She was the mother of Solomon's successor, Rehoboam. The Ammonites presented a serious problem to the Pharisees because many marriages with Ammonite (and Moabite) wives had taken place in the days of Nehemiah (). The men had married women of the various nations without conversion, which made the children not Jewish. The legitimacy of David's claim to royalty was disputed on account of his descent"