<Tr> <Th> Meaning </Th> <Td> "Beloved" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Region of origin </Th> <Td> Israel and Europe </Td> </Tr> <P> David is a common masculine given name of Biblical Hebrew origin, as King David is a character of central importance in the Hebrew Bible and in Christian, Jewish and Islamic religious tradition . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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