Absolon
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- [ ab-so-LAWN ]
- French
French form of ABSALOM.
 | ABSALOM male Biblical, Biblical Latin From the Hebrew name אַבְשָׁלוֹם ('Avshalom) which meant "my father is peace". In the Old Testament he is a son of King David. He avenged his sister Tamar by arranging the murder of her rapist, their half-brother Amnon. He later led a revolt against his father. While fleeing on the back of a mule he got his head caught in a tree and was killed by Joab. | |||||||||||||||||||