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Abigail Given name Abigail (Hebrew: אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל, Modern Avigáyil Tiberian ʾĂḇîḡáyil / ʾĂḇîḡāyil ; "her Father's joy" or "fountain of joy") is a female name occurring in Biblical narratives from the Books of Samuel, and reflected in the Books of Chronicles. The name Abigal occurs on one occasion[1], and is thought by the vast majority of scholars to be an alternate spelling of Abigail. There appear to be two individuals named Abigail: It is possible for both these women named Abigail to be different accounts of the same woman, as textual scholars regard the account in the Books of Chronicles as ultimately deriving from the Books of Samuel, and the references there to Abigail as a sister of David occur only in the passages which textual scholars attribute to the court history of David,[12] a document which doesn't mention an Abigail as one of David's wives. Abigail's self-styling as a handmaid[13] led to Abigail being the traditional term for a waiting-woman, for example, Abigail, the waiting gentlewoman, in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Scornful Lady, published in 1616. Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding employ Abigail in this generic sense. William Rose Benet notes the notoriety of Abigail Hill, better known as "Mrs Masham", the lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne.[14]

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