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Шаблон:Short description Avital (Шаблон:Lang-he ’Ăḇîṭāl) is a Hebrew given name of Old Testament origin. Traditionally a female given name, its modern usage is unisex.

Avital is also used as a surname.[1][2][3]

Etymology

"Abital" translates to dewy (as in, morning dew)[4] or my father is [the] dew (Ab-i means "my father"; -i is possessive pronoun for "my").[5]Шаблон:Better source needed

The name refers to dew, the phenomenon of water droplets that occur on exposed objects in the morning or evening due to condensation.

William Dwight Whitney's Century Dictionary of 1889 defines "avital" as "pertaining to a grandfather; ancestral", giving its root as the Latin avus, Шаблон:Lit.[6] It is used thus in 1889 by Hubert Lewis's The Ancient Laws of Wales.[7]

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Mount Avital as seen from Mount Bental

Place name

The surname could potentially be a place name for the Avital moshav in Israel, named in 1953.[8]

Alternatively, Mount Avital/Tall Abu an Nada (Hebrew: הר אביטל, Har Avital, Arabic: تل أبو الندى, Tall Abu an Nada) is a mountain that is part of a dormant volcano in the Golan Heights.[9][10] It does not appear to have any correlation with the Avital moshav, being over an hour's drive away.[11]

Biblical character

Шаблон:Main The name was popularized by minor biblical character Abital, who is mentioned in the book of Samuel as one of King David's wives (II Samuel 3:4).

Abital gave birth to David's fifth son, Shephatiah, another minor biblical character.[12][13]

People

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Chess player Avital Boruchovsky

As given name (female)

As given name (male)

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Colette Avital, Romani-Israeli diplomat and politician

As surname

References

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