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Abigail
Abigail,in 1 Sam. 25, the wife of Nabal and subsequently of David. The name came to signify a waiting-woman, from the name of the ‘waiting gentlewoman’ in The Scornful Lady by Beaumont and Fletcher , so called possibly in allusion to the expression ‘thine handmaid’, so frequently applied to herself by the biblical Abigail.
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