Bible Names

Abital: meaning of the name

Abital means “the father of the dew; or of the shadow.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Abital in Hebrew and Greek

אֲבִיטָל H37

ʼĂbîyṭâl (ab-ee-tal') — Abital, a wife of King David

from H1 (אָב) and H2919 (טַל); father of dew (i.e. fresh);

Who named Abital in the Bible

Abital in Scripture

“Abital” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Samuel 3:4

    And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

  • 1 Chronicles 3:3

    The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.