Nitzevet bat Adael ( ''Nīṣṣeḇeṯ baṯ ʿAḏʾēl'') is, according to
Hanan bar Rava
Ḥanan bar Rava (חנן/חנא/חנין בר רב/א) or Ḥanan bar Abba (חנן בר א/בא) was a Talmudic sage and second-generation Babylonian Amora. He lived in Israel, moved to Babylonia with Abba b. Aybo, and died there ca. 290 CE. H ...
, the mother of
David
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
with her husband
Jesse. According to the Bible Jesse had at least nine children:
Eliab,
Abinadab, Shimma, Nethaneel, Raddai,
Ozem, David,
Zeruiah, and
Abigail
Abigail () was an Israelite woman in the Hebrew Bible married to Nabal; she married the future King David after Nabal's death ( 1 Samuel ). Abigail was David's second wife, after Saul and Ahinoam's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later ma ...
.
In the Bible
Although David's mother is not named in the Bible, she is still mentioned there with her husband: when David was worried about the safety of his parents, he went to
Mizpah in
Moab to ask permission from the king to allow his father and mother to stay under the royal protection of the king:
In a few Bible translations, Psalm 86:16 (attributed to David) mentions the writer's mother:
:Show that you hear me and be kind to me.
:I am your servant, so give me strength.
:I am your slave, as my mother was, so save me! — Psalms 86:16
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Books of Samuel people
Talmud people
People associated with David
Women in the Hebrew Bible
Unnamed people of the Bible