page_title: David (name)
hierarchical_section_title: David (name)
caption_attribution_description: Donatello, david (marmo)
context_page_description: David is a common masculine given name of Biblical Hebrew origin, as King David is a figure of central importance in the Hebrew Bible and in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic religious tradition.
  Hebrew: דָּוִד‎, Modern: David, Tiberian: Dāwîḏ has the meaning of "beloved", from a root דּוֹד dôwd, which had an etymological meaning of "to boil", but survives in Biblical Hebrew only in figurative usage "to love" and specifically a term for an uncle. In Christian tradition, the name was adopted as Syriac: ܕܘܝܕ‎ Dawid, Greek Δαυίδ, Latin Davidus. The Quranic spelling is دَاوُۥد Dāwūd.
  David was adopted as a Christian name from an early period, e.g. David of Wales, David Saharuni, David I of Iberia.
  Name days are celebrated on 8 February, 1 March and 29 December, as well as 25 June, 26 June, 9 July, 26 August, 11 December and 30 December.
context_section_description: David is a common  masculine given name of Biblical Hebrew origin, as King David is a figure of central importance in the Hebrew Bible and in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic religious tradition.
  Hebrew: דָּוִד‎, Modern: David, Tiberian: Dāwîḏ has the meaning of "beloved", from a root דּוֹד dôwd, which had an etymological meaning of "to boil", but survives in Biblical Hebrew only in figurative usage "to love" and specifically a term for an uncle (father's brother). In Christian tradition, the name was adopted as Syriac: ܕܘܝܕ‎ Dawid, Greek Δαυίδ, Latin Davidus. The Quranic spelling is دَاوُۥد Dāwūd.
  David was adopted as a Christian name from an early period, e.g. David of Wales (6th century), David Saharuni (7th century), David I of Iberia (9th century).
  Name days are celebrated on 8 February (for David IV of Georgia), 1 March (for St. David of Wales) and 29 December (for King David), as well as 25 June (St. David of Sweden), 26 June, 9 July (Russia), 26 August, 11 December and 30 December (Hungary, Latvia, Norway).
caption: First Version of the biblical David
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