Merab

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Merab
     increase, the eldest of Saul's two daughters (1 Sam. 14:49). She
     was betrothed to David after his victory over Goliath, but does
     not seem to have entered heartily into this arrangement (18:2,
     17, 19). She was at length, however, married to Adriel of
     Abel-Meholah, a town in the Jordan valley, about 10 miles south


     of Bethshean, with whom the house of Saul maintained alliance.
     She had five sons, who were all put to death by the Gibeonites
     on the hill of Gibeah (2 Sam. 21:8).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Merab, he that fights or disputes