Crossword clues for absalom
absalom
- Brother of Tamar, in the Bible
- King David's wayward son
- Son of David who was slain by Joab
- Half a Faulkner title
- Favorite son of David
- David's tragic son
- Rebellious son of David
- Double this for a Faulkner book
- Prince of Israel's able-bodied dancer loses footing
- Son of King David
- David's rebellious son
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, King David's son in the Old Testament, often used figuratively for "favorite son," from Hebrew Abhshalom, literally "father is peace," from abh "father" + shalom "peace."
Wikipedia
Absalom or Avshalom according to the Hebrew Bible was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.
describes him as the most handsome man in the kingdom. Absalom eventually rebelled against his father and was killed during the Battle of Ephraim Wood.
Absalom (Avshalom) is a son of King David in the Old Testament.
Absalom, Absalon, Absolon or Avshalom may also refer to:
- a given name, see Absalom (given name)
- a surname, see Absalom (surname)
- Avshalom, Israel, a communal settlement in southern Israel
- Avshalom, Sinai, a former Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula
- Mount Absalom, Antarctica
- Yad Avshalom, an ancient tomb in the Kidron Valley near Jerusalem
- Absalom (1853), a wooden Ketch that was wrecked at the Macleay River bar New South Wales Australia on 29 March 1863
- Absalom and Achitophel (1681), landmark poetic political satire. Absalom was the name given by John Dryden to the Duke of Monmouth, son of Charles II of England
- Absalom, Absalom! (1936), novel by William Faulkner
- Absalom, fictional character in Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (1948)
- "Absalom", science fiction story by Henry Kuttner anthologized in the collection Tomorrow, the Stars (1952).
- Absalom (comics), Marvel Comics character (1992)
- Absalom (One Piece), a fictional character in Eiichirō Oda's manga One Piece (1997)
- Absolon (film) (2003)
- Absalom, a 2009 play about a father's tense relationships with his children, written by Zoe Kazan.
- Absalom (2000 AD), a 2000 AD character and eponymous series spun off from Caballistics Inc. (2011)
- Redirect List of Marvel Comics characters: A#Absalom
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Absalom (English pronunciation , ; Biblical Greek ) is a masculine given name from the Old Testament, where Absalom is a son of King David.
The variant (or "fuller form") is given as the name of the father-in-law of Rehoboam in 1 Kings (15:2,10).
Absalon was a 12th-century Danish archbishop and statesman from whose name the modern Scandinavian given name Axel has developed (via Axelen). The variant Absolon is a German surname.
The name was also given in medieval England (variants Absolon, Apsolon, Abselon). As in the biblical story, the fleeing Absalom has his long hair caught in a tree, the name appears to have been given as a nickname for a man with long or thick hair, as suggested by a passage in the Canterbury Tales,
Now was ther of that Chirche a parish clerk, The which that was ycleped Absolon ... Curl was his heer and as the gold it shoon ( The Miller's Tale).This use as a nickname is possibly also the origin of Absalom as an English surname. The name Absalom continued to be given in Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Hebrew name was given among Palestinian Jews in the 19th to early 20th century and remains current in Israel; it is mostly anglicized as Avshalom, reflecting Modern Hebrew pronunciation.
Usage examples of "absalom".
Her parents were an ill-matched pair of Southern Presbyterians named Absalom and Carie Sydenstricker.
When Absalom finally rejoined his family, he was exhausted, dispirited, and prepared to take an extended home leave.
For the next few years, Absalom continued his missionary work, but Pearl now realized that her family and all Westerners were regarded as unwelcome outsiders.
Within a few months, her father, Absalom, died, thus cutting another link that bound her to the past, to China, and to the missionary enterprise.
As for the blood-men, they also were under command and the names of their captains were, Captain Cain, Captain Nimrod, Captain Ishmael, Captain Esau, Captain Saul, Captain Absalom, Captain Judas, and Captain Pope.
Explain, then, in what way this sorceress set Absalom against his father and Jeroboam against his master.
Herr Professor Doktor Karl Manfred, wearing an identification tag that assigned him to the Karl Marx University of Leipzig in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik--in other words, Communist East Germany--stood by the bulletin board of the Danish ship Absalom and stared at a beautifully colored poster of three-quarters naked folk dancers prancing on a turfy field and cursed Danish ships, Danish sailors, Denmark and all its works.
But whether that mournfull burthen, and treble calling out after Absalom, had any reference unto the last conclamation, and triple valediction, used by other Nations, we hold but a wavering conjecture.
He saw also a huge slate on which was written the body of Christ, the body of Absalom and the evil which is lust.
Bill Williams, whose odd-ball father had burdened him with Absalom, Elvis and da Vinci, had spent his council house and comprehensive school years hiding his brains in order not to be bullied.
And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house.
He'd been christened Absalom Elvis da Vinci Williams, and he could lose his cool like a bolt of lightning.
It's almost a relief when he and Msimangu (close friends by then) learn at last that Absalom is in reform school for burglary.
For twice before he had done it, once when the small boy Absalom was sick unto death, and once when he had thought of giving up the ministry to run a native store at Donnybrook for a white man named Baxter, for more money than the church could ever pay.
Like twins who share identities but who develop differentiated skills, the skipjacks varied, and Captain Absalom knew that his advantage lay when the wind blew from the starboard side, for then the offset centerboard cooperated with the tilted keel to produce maximum speed.