Abital

Mentioned 1052–1047 BC traditional (Jones)

Father of dew; i.e., “fresh”, David’s fifth wife (2 Sam. 3:4).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Partner: David
Child: Shephatiah
Tagged in: 2 verses

Mentioned in the era of the Kingdom, 1050–587 BC.
Named in the same verses as Shephatiah, Adonijah, Eglah, Haggith, and Ithream.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1077–1022 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 3 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

2 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

2 Samuel1
1 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Abital 2
KJV	Abital 2
ASV	Abital 2

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

2 Samuel1 verse

3:4
his fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith; his fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital;

1 Chronicles1 verse

3:3
the fifth was Shephatiah by Abital; and the sixth was Ithream by his wife Eglah.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.