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absalom
/ˈæb.sə.ləm/
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What does absalom mean?
proper noun
- The third son of David, king of Israel.
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proper noun
- (rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
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/ˈæb.sə.ləm/
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This officer, though in his person as handsome as Absalom, or the blooming Adonis, was as destitute of soul as a monkey.
Both ladies seemed to have chosen the same subjects, too: Jephthah’s Daughter, Rizpah, David’s Lament for Absalom, etc. The doctor found the book very amusing.
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Samson possessed his strength, Saul his neck, Absalom his hair, Asahel his fleetness of foot, Uzziah his forehead, Josiah his nostrils, Zedekiah his eyes, and Zerubbabel his voice.
Also, straight from Natatorium Siloe, is an image, of stone and of old ancient work, that Absalom let make, and because thereof men clepe it the hand of Absalom.
The Scriptures tell us that Absalom, when he led the rebel hosts against his father David, rode on a mule, that he rode under an oak, and hung himself by the hair of his head.