Absalom (name)
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| Absalom | |
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| Pronunciation | /ˈæbsələm/ |
| Gender | masculine |
| Language(s) | Hebrew |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | "father of peace". |
| Other names | |
| See also | Axel |
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Absalom (English pronunciation /ˈæbsələm/, Hebrew: אַבְשָלוֹם, Modern [Avshalom] Error: {{Transl}}: unrecognized transliteration standard: (help), Tiberian ʼAḇšālôm ; "father of peace"; Biblical Greek Αβεσσαλωμ) is a masculine given name from the Old Testament, where Absalom is a son of King David.
The variant (or "fuller form") Hebrew: אֲבּישָׁלוֹם, Modern [Avishalom] Error: {{Transl}}: unrecognized transliteration standard: (help), Tiberian ʼĂḇîyšâlôwm ; "my father is peace" is given as the name of the father-in-law of Rehoboam in 1 Kings (15:2,10).[1]
Absalon was a 12th-century Danish archbishop and statesman from whose name the modern Scandinavian given name Axel has developed (via Axelen).[2] 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.[3] 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.
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Given name
- Absolon
- Absolon Stumme (d.1499), German painter
- Absalom
- Absalom Tatom (1742–1802), American politician
- Absalom Jones (1746–1818), African American abolitionist and clergyman
- Absalom Watkin (1787–1861), English political reformer
- Absalom Shade (c. 1793–1862), Canadian businessman and politician
- Absalom Harris Chappell (1801–1878), American politician and lawyer
- Absalom Baird (1824–1905), Union Army general in the American Civil War
- Absalom Shade Allan (1843–after 1901), Canadian merchant and politician
- Absalom Willis Robertson (1887–1971), American politician
- Avshalom
- Avshalom Feinberg (1889–1917), Jewish spy for Britain in World War I
- Avshalom Haviv (1926-1947), one of the Olei Hagardom
- Avshalom Kor (b. 1950), Israeli linguist
- Avshalom Vilan (b. 1951), Israeli politician and economist
- Avshalom Elitzur (b. 1957), Israeli physicist and philosopher
Surname
| Absalom | |
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| Family name | |
| Region of origin | England |
| Related names | Asplen, Aspling, Ashplant; Absolon |
"Absalom" is a rare English surname, recorded as early as in the early 13th century. It derives from the given name or nickname Absalom which became popular in England in the 12th century. The surname remained rare throughout its existence, but it gave rise to a number of variants, such as Asplen, and via the latter Aspling and Ashplant.[4]
The variant Absolon is found in England as well as in France and Germany, reaching Central Europe in the late medieval period, so that Absolon (feminine Absolonová) is now also a Czech and Slovak surname.
- Absalom
- Henry W.L. Absalom, a member of the Scientific Committee on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1955-58, eponymous of Mount Absalom in Antarctica.
- Jack Absalom (b. 1927), Australian artist
- Mike Absalom (b. 1940), English folk singer-songwriter
- Michael Absalom (b. 1980), Scottish, regular presenter on CBBC
- Absolon
- John Absolon (1815–1895), British watercolor painter
- Karel Absolon (1877–1960), Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist, and speleologist
- Philip Absolon (born 1960), British artist and a founder member of the Stuckists
- Andrea Absolonová (1976–2004), Czech diver, and pornographic actress known as Lea De Mae
- Milada Absolonová, Czechoslovak slalom canoeist
- Monika Absolonová (born 27 1976), Czech singer and actress
References
- ↑ but in 2 Chronicles 11:20,21, the same person is referred to by the shorter form Avshalom. See Strong's Concordance H53.
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- ↑ via a patronymic; one Absolon filius Apsolon is recorded in the Feet of Fines for Cambridgeshire in 1199, one Stephen Abselon is mentioned in the Curia Regis Rolls of Oxfordshire in 1208, and one Thomas Absolom is mentioned in the Calendar of Letter Books for the City of London in 1281. Name Origin Research www.surnamedb.com[unreliable source?]
- ↑ David Hey, Family Names and Family History, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006, p. 65.
See also
- All pages beginning with "Absalom"
- All pages beginning with "Absolon"
- All pages with titles containing Absalom
- All pages with titles containing Absolon
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