1 Samuel 25:3

Nabal , the word rendered fool in Psalms 14:1 ; literally, "flat," "vapid." Abigail means "one who is the cause (father) of joy," i.e. one who gives joy. She, with her bright understanding and beautiful person (the Hebrew word takes in much more than the countenance; see 1 Samuel 16:18 , where it is rendered comely person ) , is in contrast with the coarse, churlish man who was her husband. His name was either one which he had acquired by his conduct, or if given him by his parents shows that they were clownish people. He was of the house of Caleb. The written text has, "he was according to his heart," celibbo, i.e. a self-willed man, or one whose rude exterior answered to his inner nature; but there are linguistic difficulties in the way of this reading, and the Kri is probably right in correcting calibbi, a Calebite, a descendant of Caleb, who had large possessions assigned him in the neighbourhood of Hebron ( Joshua 15:13-19 ), which is only ten miles northwest of Carmel. The versions support the Kri, though the Syriac and Septuagint render doglike— one who, like a dog, though he has plenty, yet grudges others. The meaning of the name Caleb is literally "a dog."