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).



 Merab, he that fights or disputes